The Legendre transform, the Laplace transform and valuations
Metric Geometry
2026-03-13 v2 Functional Analysis
Abstract
We first prove that the Legendre transform is the only continuous and contravariant valuation that behaves as a conjugation of two important translations on super-coercive, lower semi-continuous, and convex functions. Then we turn to a similar setting on log-concave functions and find characterizations of not merely the duality transform but also the Laplace transform on log-concave functions. With the notion of dual valuation, we also obtain characterizations of the identity transform on finite convex functions and positive log-concave functions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2308.07022,
title = {The Legendre transform, the Laplace transform and valuations},
author = {Jin Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.07022},
year = {2026}
}