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Fenchel Moreau
Carlo Beenakker
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Your transform is a logarithmic variation on the Young-Fenchel transform, which has an extensive literature, for example:

On the Young-Fenchel transform for convex functions

Variational Principles of Continuum Mechanics (chapter 5 on Young-Fenchel transformations)

More generally, one can define the Fenchel-Moreau transform,

$$(\mathscr F_{\phi}\;g)(y) = -\inf_{x}\; \[g(x)-\phi(x,y)], $$

with respect to a coupling function $\phi(x,y)$. The Young-Fenchel transform corresponds to a bilinear $\phi$. Choosing $\phi(x,y)=\log(\sum_{n}x_n y_n)$ and $g(x)=\log f(x)$ gives essentially your transform.

Carlo Beenakker
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