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A subclass of complex-valued close-to-convex harmonic functions that are univalent and sense-preserving in the open unit disc is investigated. The coefficient estimates, growth results, area theorem, boundary behavior, convolution and…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2012-07-17 Sumit Nagpal , V. Ravichandran

We study some properties convex functions fulfill. Among the conclusions we obtain from such result, we are able to prove some nontrivial inequalities among real numbers, and we give an improvement of the reverse triangle inequality in the…

We introduce notions of concavity for functions on balanced polyhedral spaces, and we show that concave functions on such spaces satisfy several strong continuity properties.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Ana María Botero , José Ignacio Burgos Gil , Martín Sombra

For the minimal graph with strict convex level sets, we find an auxiliary function to study the Gaussian curvature of the level sets. We prove that this curvature function is a concave function with respect to the height of the minimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Pei-He Wang

Integrally convex functions constitute a fundamental function class in discrete convex analysis, including M-convex functions, L-convex functions, and many others. This paper aims at a rather comprehensive survey of recent results on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Kazuo Murota , Akihisa Tamura

This paper concerns the study of a broad class of minimal time functions corresponding to control problems with constant convex dynamics and closed target sets in arbitrary Banach spaces. In contrast to other publications, we do not impose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-09-09 Boris Mordukhovich , Nguyen Mau Nam

The problem of finding the minimizer of a sum of convex functions is central to the field of distributed optimization. Thus, it is of interest to understand how that minimizer is related to the properties of the individual functions in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Kananart Kuwaranancharoen , Shreyas Sundaram

We present results about minimization of convex functionals defined over a finite set of vectors in a finite dimensional Hilbert space, that extend several known results for the Benedetto-Fickus frame potential. Our approach depends on…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-10-08 Pedro Massey , Mariano Ruiz

Abstract convexity generalises classical convexity by considering the suprema of functions taken from an arbitrarily defined set of functions. These are called the abstract linear (abstract affine) functions. The purpose of this paper is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Reinier Diàz Millàn , Nadezda Sukhorukova , Julien Ugon

We introduce floating bodies for convex, not necessarily bounded subsets of $\mathbb{R}^n$. This allows us to define floating functions for convex and log concave functions and log concave measures. We establish the asymptotic behavior of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Ben Li , Carsten Schuett , Elisabeth M. Werner

A class of real functions, which is the generalization of a family of convex functions, is introduced; in this connection, we have defined $X$-convex, strictly $X$-convex, quasi-$X$-convex, strictly quasi-$X$-convex, and semi-strictly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Musavvir Ali , Ehtesham Akhter

Entropy functionals (i.e. convex integral functionals) and extensions of these functionals are minimized on convex sets. This paper is aimed at reducing as much as possible the assumptions on the constraint set. Dual equalities and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Christian Léonard

Submodular functions are relevant to machine learning for at least two reasons: (1) some problems may be expressed directly as the optimization of submodular functions and (2) the lovasz extension of submodular functions provides a useful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-09 Francis Bach

The paper is devoted to the study, characterizations, and applications of variational convexity of functions, the property that has been recently introduced by Rockafellar together with its strong counterpart. First we show that these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Pham Duy Khanh , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Vo Thanh Phat

The notions of quasiconvexity, Wright convexity and convexity for functions defined on a metric Abelian group are introduced. Various characterizations of such functions, the structural properties of the functions classes so obtained are…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Włodzimierz Fechner , Zsolt Páles

It is established that general s-convex functions are a new class of generalized convex functions. In a similar vein, a new class of general s-convex sets is introduced, which are generalizations of s-convex sets. Additionally, certain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Musavvir Ali , Ehtesham Akhter

The purpose of this paper is to provide a set of sufficient conditions so that the normalized form of the Fox-Wright functions have certain geometric properties like close-to-convexity, univalency, convexity and starlikeness inside the unit…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Khaled Mehrez

We identity the optimal non-infinitesimal direction of descent for a convex function. An algorithm is developed that can theoretically minimize a subset of (non-convex) functions.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Andrew J. Young

The present article is an exposition of a theory of discrete convex functions on certain graph structures, developed by the author in recent years. This theory is a spin-off of discrete convex analysis by Murota, and is motivated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-08 Hiroshi Hirai

For a class of discrete quasi convex functions called semi-strictly quasi M$^\natural$-convex functions, we investigate fundamental issues relating to minimization, such as optimality condition by local optimality, minimizer cut property,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Kazuo Murota , Akiyoshi Shioura