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Differentiability of the argmin function and a minimum principle for semiconcave subsolutions

Analysis of PDEs 2019-05-31 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

Suppose f(x,y)+κ2x2σ2y2f(x,y) + \frac{\kappa}{2} \|x\|^2 - \frac{\sigma}{2}\|y\|^2 is convex where σ>0\sigma>0, and the argmin function γ(x)={γ:infyf(x,y)=f(x,γ)}\gamma(x) = \{ \gamma : \inf_y f(x,y) = f(x,\gamma)\} exists and is single valued. We will prove γ\gamma is differentiable almost everywhere. As an application we deduce a minimum principle for certain semiconcave subsolutions.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1808.04402,
  title  = {Differentiability of the argmin function and a minimum principle for semiconcave subsolutions},
  author = {Julius Ross and David Witt Nyström},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.04402},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

20 pages, minor changes, accepted version to appear in Journal of Convex Analysis

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