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Title: Min-max identities on boundaries of convex sets around the origin

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/839224· OSTI ID:839224

Min-max and max-min identities are found for inner products on the boundaries of compact, convex sets whose interiors contain the origin. The identities resemble the minimax theorem but they are different from it. Specifically, the value of each min-max (or max-min) equals the value of a dual problem of the same type. Their solution sets can be characterized geometrically in terms of the enclosed convex sets and their polar sets. However, the solution sets need not be convex nor even connected.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Director, Office of Science. Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research. Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Division (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
OSTI ID:
839224
Report Number(s):
LBNL-50634; R&D Project: K11001; TRN: US200509%%256
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 31 Jan 2002
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English