English

Products of functions with bounded ${\rm Hess}^+$ complement

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2022-01-19 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We denote by Hess+{\rm Hess}^+ the set of all points pRnp\in\mathbb{R}^n such that the Hessian matrix Hp(f)H_p(f) of the C2C^2-smooth function f:RnRf:\mathbb{R}^n\longrightarrow\mathbb{R} is positive definite. In this paper we provide a class of norm-coercive polynomial functions with large Hess+{\rm Hess}^+ regions, as their Hess+{\rm Hess}^+ complements happen to be bounded. A detailed analysis concerning the Hess+{\rm Hess}^+ region of a particular polynomial function along with some basic properties of its level curves, such as regularity, connectedness and convexity, is also provided. For such functions we also prove several properties, such as connectedness and convexity, of their level sets for sufficiently large levels. Apart from the mentioned source of such examples we provide some sufficient conditions on two functions f,g:R2Rf,g:\mathbb{R}^2\longrightarrow\mathbb{R} with bounded Hess+{\rm Hess}^+ complements whose product fgfg keeps having bounded Hess+{\rm Hess}^+ complement as well.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2201.06160,
  title  = {Products of functions with bounded ${\rm Hess}^+$ complement},
  author = {Andi Brojbeanu and Cornel Pintea},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.06160},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

22 pages, 3 figures (one used twice)

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