Documentation

Books.ConvexAnalysis_Rockafellar_1970.Chapters.Chap03.section14_part11

If Cpolar = polar C and 0 ∈ Cpolar, then the span of C is the orthogonal complement of the lineality subspace of Cpolar (expressed via dual annihilators).

Theorem 14.6: Let C and C^∘ be a polar pair of closed convex sets containing the origin. Then the recession cone of C and the closure of the convex cone generated by C^∘ are polar to each other. The lineality space of C and the subspace generated by C^∘ are orthogonally complementary. Dually, the same statements hold with C and C^∘ interchanged.