Bridging EuclideanSpace sublevel-closure to Fin n → ℝ #
Closure of a ≤ 1 sublevel set matches the ≤ 1 sublevel of the convex-function closure
when the domain is Fin n → ℝ.
Points in the ≤ 1 sublevel of the hull lie in the closure of the convex hull
of the ≤ 1 sublevels.
The ≤ 1 sublevel of the convex-hull support family has the same closure as the convex hull
of the ≤ 1 sublevels of the family.
Corollary 16.5.2.2: Let C i be a convex set in ℝ^n for each i in a nonempty index set,
assume the intersection of the closures is nonempty, and that this intersection contains 0.
Then
(⋂ i, closure (C i))^∘ = closure (convexHull ℝ (⋃ i, (C i)^∘)).
In this development, the polar of a set S is represented by
{xStar | ∀ x ∈ S, (dotProduct x xStar : ℝ) ≤ 1}.
A common relative-interior point yields finite iSup for a finite family.
Closure commutes with a finite iSup under a common domain closure.
Conjugates share a common recession function under a common domain closure.
Closedness and attainment for the convex hull of conjugates under common domain closure.
Convex-combination formula with full-index sums on a finite index type.
Theorem 16.5.3: Let f i be a proper convex function on ℝ^n for each i in a finite index
set. If the sets cl (dom f i) are all the same set C, then
(supᵢ f i)^* = conv { (f i)^* | i }.
Moreover, for each xStar, (supᵢ f i)^*(xStar) can be expressed as the infimum of
∑ i, λ i * (f i)^*(xStarᵢ) over all representations of xStar as a convex combination
xStar = ∑ i, λ i • xStarᵢ, and this infimum is attained. Here dom f i is modeled by
effectiveDomain univ (f i) and cl denotes topological closure of sets.