Solution

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For the Lagrange multiplier equations, use . They give , , and . If , then , implying and therefore , contradicting . Thus only , remain.
The circle is compact and the function is continuous, so global extrema exist. On it, eliminating gives , which is increasing for since its derivative is . Therefore
These constrained extrema are flat to quadratic order along the circle, so a vanishing second derivative alone would not classify them.

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