Convexity of the radial composition x ↦ g (‖x‖) from convexity and monotonicity of g
on the nonnegative ray, assuming g 0 is finite.
Lower semicontinuity of g on nonnegRay implies lower semicontinuity of the radial
composition x ↦ g (‖x‖).
Properness of the radial function follows from finiteness at 0 and monotonicity of g on
the ray, once convexity is known.
From closed proper convexity of the radial function x ↦ g (‖x‖), recover the one-dimensional
ray conditions on g.
Defn 12.4: Let g be a function on the nonnegative orthant ℝ^n_+. Its monotone conjugate
g⁺ is defined for y* ∈ ℝ^n_+ by
g⁺(y*) = sup_{y ≥ 0} (⟪y, y*⟫ - g y).
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Lower semicontinuity of Real → EReal coercions implies lower semicontinuity of the real map.
The map x ↦ absVecNN n x is continuous.
Text 12.3.6 (1): Let f : ℝ^n → ℝ be of the form f(x) = g(abs x) with
g : ℝ^n_+ → ℝ and abs x = (|x₁|, …, |xₙ|).
Then f is closed proper convex on ℝ^n iff g is lower semicontinuous, convex, finite at 0,
and non-decreasing (i.e. 0 ≤ y ≤ y' → g y ≤ g y').
Text 12.3.6 (2): The conjugate of f(x) = g(abs x) is
f*(x*) = g⁺(abs x*), where g⁺ is the EReal-valued monotone conjugate (here
g⁺ = monotoneConjugateEReal n g).