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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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- section14_polarConeConvexCone K = { carrier := polarCone K, smul_mem' := ⋯, add_mem' := ⋯ }
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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.
The closed conic hull of dom f* is contained in the polar of the recession cone of f.
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.
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.