Text 15.0.33: Let f : ℝⁿ → [0, +∞] and let g be the function defined by the obverse formula
g x = inf {λ > 0 | f_λ x ≤ 1}, where f_λ x := λ * f (x / λ) for λ > 0. Then the epigraph of
g admits the geometric representation
epi g = {(x, λ) | h (λ, x) ≤ 1},
where
h (λ, x) = f_λ x if λ > 0, h (0, x) = (f₀⁺) x (the recession function), and h (λ, x) = +∞
if λ < 0.
The λ = 1 slice of P = epi h projects to epi f.
The μ = 1 slice of P = epi h projects to the h ≤ 1 sublevel set.
The sublevel set h ≤ 1 is the epigraph of obverseConvex f.
Text 15.0.34: Let P = epi h ⊆ ℝ^{n+2} be the (closed convex) cone given as the epigraph of the
function h (λ, x) from Text 15.0.33; it is the smallest closed convex cone containing the points
(1, x, μ) with μ ≥ f x.
Then the slice of P by the hyperplane λ = 1 corresponds to the epigraph epi f, and the slice
by the hyperplane μ = 1 corresponds to the epigraph epi g of the obverse g.
The recession function is positively homogeneous under closedness and nonnegativity.
Normalizing the h-inequality at positive μ.
Points in P have nonnegative λ.
Dot-product bound for points in the epigraph set P.
The epigraph set P is closed.