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I'm trying to write a function of a variable as the argument of a minimization where that variable comes to play.

Here is the code :

f[x_, a_, b_] = x*Log[x] + (1 - x)*Log[1 - x ] - a*x^2 + b*x^4;
mu[x_, a_, b_] = D[f[x, a, b], x];
h[x_, a_, b_] = D[f[x, a, b], x, x];
solh[a_, b_] := {Min[x /. NSolve[{h[x, a, b] == 0, 0 < x < 1}, x]], 
   Max[x /. NSolve[{h[x, a, b] == 0, 0 < x < 1}, x]]};

p[x_, a_, b_] = f[x, a, b] - x*mu[x, a, b];

fm[a_, b_] := 
  NMinimize[{(mu[x0, a, b] - mu[x1, a, b])^2 + (p[x0, a, b] - 
        p[x1, a, b])^2, 
    0.0001 < x0 < solh[a, b][[1]] && 
     solh[a, b][[2]] < x1 < 0.9999}, {x0, x1}];

amin = 2;
amax = 82;
da = 5;
bmin = 10;
bmax = 100;
db = 20;

X = Table[Table[fm[a, b], {a, amin, amax, da}], {b, bmin, bmax, db}];
A = Table[a, {a, amin, amax, da}];
X0 = Transpose[{A, x0 /. X[[All, 2]]}];
X1 = Transpose[{A, x1 /. X[[All, 2]]}];
ListPlot[{X0, X1}]

But I'm then getting the error :

NMinimize::bcons: The following constraints are not valid
$\{0.0001<x0,x<x1,x0<x,x1<0.9999\}. $ Constraints should be equalities, inequalities, or domain specifications involving the variables.

So I was wondering how to proceed !

Thanks in advance

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For some values of a and b there is no solutions in the range 0<x<1, so solh[a_, b_] shows {x, x}, hence further errors. You can change this to:

solh[a_, b_] := 
  With[{sol = NSolve[{h[x, a, b] == 0, 0 < x < 1}, x][[;; , 1, 2]]}, 
   If[sol != {}, MinMax[sol], {0.00011, 0.99989}]];

Now in case of no solutions due to restrictions on x the output will be {0.00011, 0.99989}, you can tune these values. Then we can simplify your Tables:

points = Flatten[
  Table[{a, x0, x1} /. fm[a, b][[2]], {b, bmin, bmax, db}, {a, amin, 
    amax, da}], 1];

and show ListPlot:

ListPlot[{points[[;; , {1, 2}]], points[[;; , {1, 3}]]}, PlotLegends -> {x0, x1}]

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