Abstract
This paper provides a canonical dual approach for minimizing a general quadratic function over a set of linear constraints. We first perturb the feasible domain by a quadratic constraint, and then solve a “restricted” canonical dual program of the perturbed problem at each iteration to generate a sequence of feasible solutions of the original problem. The generated sequence is proven to be convergent to a Karush–Kuhn–Tucker point with a strictly decreasing objective value. Some numerical results are provided to illustrate the proposed approach.
Keywords: Quadratic programming; Global optimization; Canonical duality theory