The canonical uniform initial point x⁰ = (1 / n) e in the Euclidean simplex
toLp 2 '' stdSimplex ℝ (Fin n), obtained by transporting stdSimplex.barycenter, for
n > 0.
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Coercing the uniform simplex point to the ambient Euclidean space gives the transported
constant vector with coordinates 1 / n.
Helper for Text 9.8: for ω(x) = ‖x‖² / 2, the Bregman distance is
‖x - y‖² / 2.
Helper for Text 9.8: two transported simplex points are at squared Euclidean distance at most
2.
Helper for Text 9.8: the quadratic mirror map is subdifferentiable everywhere.
The Euclidean mirror map ω(x) = ‖x‖² / 2 is a Bregman potential with modulus 1 on the
transported simplex Δ.
On the simplex, the Euclidean Bregman distance to the uniform initialization x⁰ = (1 / n)e
is bounded by 1. This is the simplex specialization of the textbook constant Θ₀ = 1.
Text 9.8: for mirror descent on the Euclidean simplex with mirror map
ω(x) = ‖x‖₂² / 2, uniform initialization x⁰ = (1 / n)e, and constant stepsizes
t_k = √2 / (L_{f,2} √(N + 1)) on the first N + 1 iterations, the running-best objective gap
is bounded by √2 L_{f,2} / √(N + 1), with L_{f,2} represented here by h_bound.L_f.
The projected-subgradient iterates on the Euclidean simplex, started at the uniform point,
form the specialized mirror-descent trajectory for ω(x) = ‖x‖₂² / 2. This is the explicit
Text 9.5 bridge between the Chapter 8 recursive iterates and the Chapter 9 owner
is_mirror_descent_trajectory.