Text 5.4.1.6: For any functions f_1 and f_2 from R^n to [-infty, +infty]
(not necessarily convex nor proper), (f_1 □ f_2)(x) can be defined directly in
terms of addition of epigraphs:
(f_1 □ f_2)(x) = inf { μ | (x, μ) ∈ (epi f_1 + epi f_2) }.
Text 5.4.2: Let f : R^n → R ∪ {+infty} be convex and lam ∈ [0, +infty).
Define the right scalar multiple f lam to be the convex function obtained from
Theorem 5.3 by taking F = lam (epi f) ⊆ R^{n+1}.
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Text 5.4.3 (ii): Let f be convex on ℝ^n. If λ = 0 and f is not identically
+∞, then for all x, (f 0)(x) = δ(x | 0). (Trivially, if f ≡ +∞ then f 0 = f.)
If f is positively homogeneous, all positive right scalar multiples equal f.
If every positive right scalar multiple equals f, then f is positively homogeneous.
Text 5.4.5 (Characterization via right scalar multiplication): A convex function f
is positively homogeneous if and only if f λ = f for every λ > 0, where f λ
denotes the right scalar multiple.
Text 5.4.6 (Cone generated by an epigraph): Let h : ℝ^n → ℝ ∪ {+∞} be convex.
The convex cone generated by epi h is the smallest convex cone F ⊆ ℝ^{n+1}
containing epi h. Equivalently,
F = cone (epi h) := conv ({0} ∪ ⋃_{λ > 0} λ • (epi h)).
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Text 5.4.7 (Positively homogeneous convex function generated by h): Let
h : ℝ^n → ℝ ∪ {+∞} be convex and let F = cone (epi h) ⊆ ℝ^{n+1}. Define
f x = inf { μ | (x, μ) ∈ F } (as in Theorem 5.3). The function f is called the
positively homogeneous convex function generated by h.
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The generated epigraph is closed under addition.
The generated epigraph forms a convex cone.
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- convexCone_generatedEpigraph h = { carrier := convexConeGeneratedEpigraph h, smul_mem' := ⋯, add_mem' := ⋯ }
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The epigraph of a convex positively homogeneous function is closed under addition.
The epigraph of a convex positively homogeneous function is a convex cone.
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Minimality of the generated cone inside any epigraph majorant.
Text 5.4.8 (Maximality of the positively homogeneous hull): Let h be convex on ℝ^n,
and let f be the positively homogeneous convex function generated by h. Then:
(i) epi f is a convex cone in ℝ^{n+1} containing the origin.
(ii) f is convex and positively homogeneous, and satisfies f(0) ≤ 0 and f ≤ h.
(iii) (Greatest such minorant) If u is any positively homogeneous convex function with
u(0) ≤ 0 and u ≤ h, then u ≤ f.