An extension of Alexandrov's theorem on second derivatives of convex functions

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2011.07.002MaRDI QIDQ643434zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joseph H. G. Fu

Publication date 28 October 2011

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.0278

zbMATH Keywords

convex functionsSobolev spacesweak derivativessecond derivativeAleksandrov's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convexity of real functions of several variables, generalizations (26B25) Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems (46E35) Derivatives of functions in infinite-dimensional spaces (46G05) Fréchet and Gateaux differentiability in optimization (49J50)

Abstract: If $f$ is a function of $n$ variables that is locally $L^1$ approximable by a sequence of smooth functions satisfying local $L^1$ bounds on the determinants of the minors of the Hessian, then $f$ admits a second order Taylor expansion almost everywhere. This extends a classical theorem of A.D. Alexandrov, covering the special case in which $f$ is locally convex.

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