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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 SL(n)\mathrm{SL}(n) 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.

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@article{arxiv.2308.07022,
  title  = {The Legendre transform, the Laplace transform and valuations},
  author = {Jin Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.07022},
  year   = {2026}
}
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