multimin with non-linear constraints

[Ajay Shah]

> In case I can be guided further let me be more specific
> [as I can after reading the 'nonlinear programming faq']:
> my constraints are just a set of quadratic equalities.
> I quite sure that such a problem was studied before:
> is there `keywords' for it ?

If your constraints are quadratic inequalities, then you're out of
luck (the simple tricks I talked about won't help). Then you need
"real" nonlinear programming codes. Please do help bring them (true
nonlinear programming codes) into gsl. We need them.

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