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Q13Section A (Section A)13 of 60

Minimum of a quartic over a half plane

Consider the domain D={(x,y)∈R2:x≤y}D=\{(x,y)\in\mathbb R^2:x\le y\} and the function h:D→Rh:D\to\mathbb R defined by

h((x,y))=(x−2)4+(y−1)4,(x,y)∈D.h\big((x,y)\big)=(x-2)^4+(y-1)^4,\quad(x,y)\in D.

Then the minimum value of hh on DD equals

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