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Is the polar dual of a semi-algebraic convex body also semi-algebraic?
Call a convex body $C\subset\Bbb R^n$ semi-algebraic if it can be written as
$$(*)\quad C=\bigcap_{i\in I}\, \{x\in \Bbb R^n\mid p_i(x)\le 0\}$$
with polynomials $p_i\in\Bbb R[X_1,...,X_n]$ and a ...
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Are there centrally-symmetric self-dual polytopes in dimension $d> 4$?
A convex polytope $P\subset\Bbb R^d$ is centrally symmetric if $-P=P$. It is self-dual (or better, self-polar?) if its polar dual $P^\circ$ is congruent to $P$, that is, there is a map $X\in\mathrm O(\...
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From $f$-divergence to its dual: the transformation of convex functions on $\mathbb R_+$ by $f^*(t) = 1 f(\frac 1 t)$
I would like to understand the relationship between minimising the KL divergence $P \mapsto D_{KL}[P,Q]$ and the reverse KL divergence $P\mapsto D_{KL}^*[P,Q]=D_{KL}[Q,P]$ for probability measures $P$ ...