.. _method-asynch_pattern_search-merit_function-merit_max:

"""""""""
merit_max
"""""""""


Nonsmoothed merit function


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**Specification**

- *Alias:* None

- *Arguments:* None


**Description**


APPS solves nonlinearly constrained problems by solving a sequence of
linearly constrained merit function-base subproblems. There are
several exact and smoothed exact penalty functions.

``merit_max``: based on :math:`\ell_\infty`  norm


