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Does the Legendre-Fenchel transform/convex conjugate of strongly convex functions have any desirable properties?
It is well known in convex analysis that when a closed, proper, function $f$ is Legendre-type, that is, essentially strictly convex and essentially smooth, the Legendre transform yields a dual ...
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Self adjoint operators from energy functionals
It is known that the equation
$$
\Delta f = 0
$$
on some bounded domain $\Omega$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$ subjected to certain boundary conditions can be derived through the minimization of the Dirichlet ...