Abstract

The general scheme of convex duality theory is used to study the subdifferentiability, the exactness, and the lower semicontinuity of the level sum of two convex functions on a Banach space.

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S. Traoré

Département de Mathématiques, Université d’Avignon, 33 rue Louis Pasteur, 84000 Avignon, France.

M. Volle

Département de Mathématiques, Université d’Avignon, 33 rue Louis Pasteur, 84000 Avignon, France

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S. Traoré, M. Volle. “On the level sum of two convex functions on Banach spaces.” Journal of Convex Analysis 3 (1996), No. 1, 141–151. https://doi.org/10.68381/jca03010

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