Defintion 4.4.6: Under these conventions, the usual arithmetic laws remain valid as long as none of the indicated binary sums is forbidden.
Remark 4.4.7: In this book, a “convex function” means an EReal-valued convex
function defined on all of ℝ^n, unless otherwise specified; this convention lets
the effective domain be determined implicitly by where f x is or is not ⊤.
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Remark 4.5.0: Every affine function on ℝ^n is of the form
x ↦ ⟪x, a⟫ + α for some a ∈ ℝ^n and α ∈ ℝ (Theorem 1.5).
Definition 4.5: The dimension of the effective domain of f is called the
dimension of f.
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Convexity of the epigraph yields convex combinations of points in it.
Remark 4.5.1: For convexity of the epigraph, one requires that for any x, y ∈ S,
any μ, v ∈ ℝ with f x ≤ μ and f y ≤ v, and any 0 ≤ λ ≤ 1, the point
(1 - λ) x + λ y lies in S and satisfies
f ((1 - λ) x + λ y) ≤ (1 - λ) μ + λ v; this condition admits several equivalent
formulations.
Remark 4.5.1: A quadratic function
f x = (1/2) ⟪x, Q x⟫ + ⟪x, a⟫ + α, where Q is a symmetric n × n matrix,
is convex on ℝ^n iff Q is positive semidefinite, i.e.
⟪z, Q z⟫ ≥ 0 for every z ∈ ℝ^n.
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