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Classify all stationary points
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Find and classify every critical point of . Is convex on all of ?
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so the critical points are , , and . The Hessian is
At it has eigenvalues , so this point is a saddle. At each of it is , so both are strict (indeed global) minima with value . The function is not convex on all of because at the origin.
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