How to regularize a difference of convex functions

DOI10.1016/0022-247X(91)90187-5MaRDI QIDQ1192766zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 27 September 1992

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-247X(91)90187-5

convolution critical points difference of two convex functions kernel function regularization process

Convex sets in topological linear spaces; Choquet theory (46A55) Derivatives of functions in infinite-dimensional spaces (46G05) Nonsmooth analysis (49J52)

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Given a nonconvex function \(f\) defined as the difference of two convex functions \(g\) and \(h\) (\(f\) is a so-called d.c. function), the author studies the regularized (or smoothed) version \(f_ r= g\square r/2\| \cdot\|^ 2- h\square r/2\| \cdot\|^ 2\) of \(f\) obtained by performing the infimal convolution of both component functions \(g\) and \(h\) by the same kernel function \(r/2\|\cdot \|^ 2\). He compares critical points of \(f_ r\) and \(f\) and considers the behavior of critical points of \(f_ r\) as \(r\to +\infty\). To a great extent the nice properties of the regularization process \(\varphi\to\varphi \square r/2\| \cdot\|^ 2\) when applied to convex functions \(\varphi\) are preserved for the process \(f\to f_ r\) when performed on d.c. functions \(f\).

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