2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/32542The problem of finding out the global minimum of a multiextremal functional is discussed. One frequently faces with such a functional in various applications. We propose a procedure, which depends on the dimensionality of the problem polynomially. In our approach we use the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the connection matrix.4 pages, Lecture on 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis PRIA-07-2004, St. Petersburg, RussiaNeural and Evolutionary ComputingDiscrete Mathematicstext