Series of convex functions: subdifferential, conjugate and applications to entropy minimization

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Authors Claude Vallée, Constantin Zălinescu

Publication date 21 December 2016

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01216, http://www.heldermann.de/JCA/JCA23/JCA234/jca23042.htm#jca224

zbMATH Keywords

subdifferentialstatistical physicsconjugate functionentropy minimizationseries of convex functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonsmooth analysis (49J52)

Abstract: A formula for the sub-differential of the sum of a series of convex functions defined on a Banach space was provided by X. Y. Zheng in 1998. In this paper, besides a slight extension to locally convex spaces of Zheng's results, we provide a formula for the conjugate of a countable sum of convex functions. Then we use these results for calculating the sub-differentials and the conjugates in two situations related to entropy minimization, and we study a concrete example met in Statistical Physics.

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