Uniform convergence of convex functions - references - MathOverflow most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-19T17:40:38Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/question/92646 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/92646/uniform-convergence-of-convex-functions-references Uniform convergence of convex functions - references William 2012-03-30T04:25:05Z 2012-03-30T04:33:51Z <p>Inspired by the following question on stackexchange: <a href="http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/126142/uniform-convergence-of-convex-sequence-of-functions" rel="nofollow">http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/126142/uniform-convergence-of-convex-sequence-of-functions</a>, I thought of asking whether anyone knows of original (or close to...) references for the following folklore result.</p> <p>It is known that if $\Omega$ is a compact subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ which is convex, and if ${f_n}$ is a sequence of convex, continuous functions on $C\subset\Omega$, where $C$ is compact and does not intersect $\partial \Omega$, converging to some continuous $f$ on $\Omega$ pointwise, then the convergence is actually uniform.</p> <p>Does anyone know of original (or close to...) references for this result? I found a paper (here: <a href="http://www.mathnet.ru/php/archive.phtml?wshow=paper&amp;jrnid=ivm&amp;paperid=2536&amp;option_lang=eng" rel="nofollow">http://www.mathnet.ru/php/archive.phtml?wshow=paper&amp;jrnid=ivm&amp;paperid=2536&amp;option_lang=eng</a>) from the '60s (which is in Russian, and here is an abstract in English: <a href="http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=183835" rel="nofollow">http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=183835</a>) which talks about extensions of this result to include (a subset of) $\partial \Omega$ in $C$, but this paper doesn't mention any references to the original result. By the way, in that paper the author introduces some conditions on $\partial \Omega$ (in particular, he argues that if the curvature of $\partial \Omega$ develops degeneracies, but one can control the order of degeneracy sufficiently well, then the result can be extended, in some sensible way [I didn't spend much time reading into details]). </p>