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Books.ConvexAnalysis_Rockafellar_1970.Chapters.Chap03.section14_part3

If y★ is in the recession cone of f* and f* is finite somewhere, then y★ is nonpositive on erealDom f.

Theorem 14.2. Let f be a proper convex function. The polar of the convex cone generated by dom f is the recession cone of the Fenchel conjugate f*. Dually, if f is closed, the polar of the recession cone of f is the closure of the convex cone generated by dom f*.

The polar cone of a set, packaged as a ConvexCone, so that we can use ConvexCone.hull minimality arguments.

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    If x★ is in the effective domain of f*, then x★ lies in the polar cone of the recession cone of f.

    theorem section14_exists_eval_of_continuousLinearMap_dualWeak {E : Type u_1} [AddCommGroup E] [Module E] ( : Module.Dual E →L[] ) :
    ∃ (y : E), ∀ (xStar : Module.Dual E), xStar = xStar y

    Any continuous linear functional on Module.Dual ℝ E equipped with the weak topology induced by evaluation is itself an evaluation at some y : E.

    If x★ is not in the (weak) closure of the conic hull of dom f*, then one can separate it from that cone by evaluation at some y : E.

    theorem section14_exists_affine_minorant_strict_of_lt {E : Type u_1} [AddCommGroup E] [Module E] [TopologicalSpace E] [IsTopologicalAddGroup E] [ContinuousSMul E] [LocallyConvexSpace E] {f : EEReal} (hf : ProperConvexERealFunction f) (hf_closed : LowerSemicontinuous f) {x0 : E} {μ0 : } (hμ0 : μ0 < f x0) :
    ∃ (xStar : Module.Dual E) (β : ), (∀ (x : E), ↑(xStar x - β) f x) μ0 < xStar x0 - β fenchelConjugateBilin LinearMap.applyₗ f xStar <

    A Hahn–Banach separation gadget for a proper convex lower semicontinuous function: given a point (x0, μ0) strictly below the epigraph of f, produce a continuous affine minorant x ↦ x★ x - β that lies below f everywhere and is strictly above μ0 at x0. In particular, the Fenchel conjugate is finite at x★.

    For a proper convex lower semicontinuous function, the Fenchel conjugate is finite somewhere.

    If y is nonpositive on dom f* and f is proper convex and closed, then y is a recession direction of f.

    If x★ is in polarCone (recessionConeEReal f), then x★ lies in the weak closure of the conic hull of dom f* (dual part of Theorem 14.2).

    Theorem 14.2 (dual statement). If f is closed, then the polar of the recession cone of f is the closure of the convex cone generated by dom f*.

    Membership in a dual cone with respect to the flipped evaluation pairing is exactly a pointwise nonpositivity condition.

    Recession directions lie in the polar (with respect to flipped evaluation) of the barrier cone.