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ConvexAnalysisMonotoneOperators_BauschkeCombettes_2017.Chap08.Proposition_8_4

theorem ERealFunction.convex_epigraph_iff_jensen_on_dom {H : Type u} [AddCommMonoid H] [Module H] (f : HEReal) :
Convex (epigraph f) ∀ ⦃x y : H⦄, x dom fy dom f∀ ⦃α : ⦄, 0 < αα < 1f (α x + (1 - α) y) α * f x + (1 - α) * f y

Proposition 8.4: the real-height epigraph of an extended-real-valued function is convex if and only if Jensen's inequality holds for every two points of the effective domain dom f = {x | f x < ⊤} and every coefficient α ∈ ]0,1[.