Helper for Theorem 10.46: a nonnegative weighted sum of globally smooth functions is globally smooth, with smoothness constant given by the same weighted sum.
Helper for Theorem 10.46: differentiating a real-valued function after precomposition by a continuous affine map amounts to composing the derivative with the affine map's linear part.
Helper for Theorem 10.46: the displacement of a continuous affine map is controlled by the operator norm of its linear part.
Helper for Theorem 10.46: precomposing a globally smooth function with a continuous affine map multiplies the smoothness constant by the square of the operator norm of the linear part.
Theorem 10.46 (1): a nonnegative linear combination of two 1 / μ-smooth approximations is a
1 / μ-smooth approximation of the corresponding nonnegative linear combination, with parameters
obtained by the same linear combination.
Theorem 10.46 (2): precomposing a 1 / μ-smooth approximation with a continuous affine map
φ multiplies the smoothness parameter by ‖φ.contLinear‖² and leaves the error parameter
unchanged.
Source-facing specialization of Theorem 10.46 (2) to affine maps written as x ↦ A x + b.