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Books.ConvexAnalysis_Rockafellar_1970.Chapters.Chap03.section14_part8

(Theorem 14.3, auxiliary) Analytic core: a point in the 0-sublevel set of the Fenchel biconjugate of k = posHomHull f lies in the closed conic hull of {x | f x ≤ 0}.

(Theorem 14.3, auxiliary) Recession directions of the Fenchel biconjugate (k*)* lie in the closure of the recession directions of k.

This is the missing structural bridge in the conic-separation proof of Theorem 14.3.

(Theorem 14.3, auxiliary) Geometric conversion step for the separation proof.

This is the missing implication in the contradiction argument: if a point x : E is nonpositive under every functional in the closed cone generated by {φ | f* φ ≤ 0}, then x lies in the closed cone generated by {x | f x ≤ 0}.

The textbook proof routes this through the positively-homogeneous hull k of f, the conjugacy (cl k)* = ι_{ {φ | f* φ ≤ 0} }, and the polar/recession correspondence (Theorem 14.2).