Practice Problem Set 4

OA4201 Nonlinear Programming

For each of the following functions, determine whether the function is convex, concave,
neither convex nor concave, or both convex and concave.
 

1. f(x) = ax + b (a and b are constants)

2. f(x) = x2

3. f(x) = x12 + x1x2 + (x2 – 1)2

4. f(x) = x14 + x24

 

5. f(x) = x4 + x3

6. f(x) = max xi
i

7. f(x,y) = x2/y where y > 0