Alexandrov's Theorem for Semiconvex Functions on an Open Convex Set
corollaryAnalysisMultivariable Calculuscor:alexandrov-open-semiconvex-rn-2026aA semiconvex function with constant on an open convex subset of Euclidean space is twice differentiable outside a null set, and wherever it is twice differentiable its Hessian is bounded below by .
We work in the setting of Euclidean Space and Lebesgue Measure: Standing Notation, whose notation is fixed for every dimension and is used here with a natural number satisfying : the real numbers and finite index sets, the Euclidean norm , dot product, distance , notion of openness and closed balls , the Lebesgue measure , the notion of a null subset, the constant with , and the conventions on Lipschitz maps are as fixed there. Write for the set of symmetric real matrices, for the identity matrix, for the scalar multiple of a real matrix, and for the positive semidefinite ordering on ; the matrix below belongs to because all of its off-diagonal entries vanish.
Let be open and convex, let with , and let be semiconvex on with constant . Twice differentiability at a point and the Hessian are as fixed there. Then the following hold.
1. (Twice differentiability almost everywhere) ¶ The set of those at which is not twice differentiable is null.
2. (Lower bound on the Hessian) ¶ At every at which is twice differentiable one has
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