Eponyms #
Named theorems of convex analysis, under the names people search for. Every declaration here is an
alias: the library's primary names are descriptive (biconj_eq_clFn, convexHull_extremePoints),
which is right for a library organised by subject but is not what a reader looks up first. Where the
eponym is already the primary name — fenchel_duality, farkas, helly_finite — no alias appears.
perspective aliases a definition rather than a theorem: smulRight f a is Rockafellar's fa, the
perspective function under its other name.
References #
- R. T. Rockafellar, Convex Analysis, Princeton University Press, 1970.
Fenchel–Moreau: a convex function's biconjugate is its closure.
Jensen's inequality for a finite convex combination.
Carathéodory's theorem: a point of conv S is a convex combination of at most dim E + 1
points of S.
Krein–Milman, finite-dimensional form: a compact convex set is the convex hull of its extreme points.
Minkowski–Weyl: a convex cone is polyhedral exactly when it is finitely generated.
Moreau's decomposition: (f □ q) z + (f* □ q) z = q z, where q z = ½ B z z.
Maximal monotonicity of the subdifferential of a closed proper convex function.
The perspective of a convex function, (f a) x = a · f (x / a) for a > 0, defined through
the epigraph so that the a = 0 and improper cases come out right. Rockafellar's fa.