Is this optimization problem called unconstrained quadratic program?

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\begin{equation} \arg\min_{c} \frac{1}{2}c^TAc + f^Tc \end{equation} where $A$ is a symmetric $n\times n$ matrix, $f$ and $c$ are vectors in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Can we call this problem an unconstrained quadratic program?

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Note that depending on whether or not $A$ is positive semidefinite, the problem might be convex or it might be non-convex. If it is non-convex, then the minimization is unbounded.