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Consider the BFGS quasi-Newton method applied to a general non-convex function that has continuous second derivatives. This paper aims to construct a four-dimensional example such that the BFGS method need not converge. The example is perfect in the following sense: (a) All the stepsizes are exactly equal to one; the unit stepsize can also be accepted by various line searches including the Wolfe line...
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