Decomposition approach for the global minimization of biconcave functions over polytopes

A decomposition approach is proposed for minimizing biconcave functions over polytopes. Important special cases include concave minimization, bilinear and indefinite quadratic programming for which new algorithms result. The approach introduces a new polyhedral partition and combines branch-and-bound techniques, outer approximation, and projection of polytopes in a suitable way.

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