The owner-facing core of Proposition 2.20: if the selected dual residual vanishes at uStar,
then the selected minimizer is feasible and minimizes the primal objective on the feasible set.
At a feasible selected minimizer, the equality-constraint term in the selected dual profile vanishes, so the selected dual profile equals the primal objective.
Proposition 2.20 in textbook form: if the canonical selected dual profile
selection.selectedDualProfile is maximized at uStar and has gradient there equal to the
dual residual, then the selected minimizer at uStar solves the primal problem.
Companion reformulation of Proposition 2.20 using mathlib's total gradient at the single
point uStar: differentiability at uStar upgrades the pointwise identity
∇ φ(uStar) = selection.dualResidual uStar to the HasGradientAt hypothesis used by the main
theorem.
Once the selected point is known to minimize the primal problem, strong duality identifies the primal optimal value with the dual value and the recovered primal objective value.