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The Proximal Map of a Convex Function on Rn\mathbb{R}^n

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Defines the proximal map of a convex function on Euclidean space, sending a point xx to the unique minimiser of f(z)+12xz2f(z)+\tfrac12\lVert x-z\rVert^2.

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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 nn satisfying 1n1\le n: the real numbers and the Euclidean norm \lVert\,\cdot\,\rVert of Rn\mathbb{R}^{n} are as fixed there.

Let f:RnRf:\mathbb{R}^{n}\to\mathbb{R} be convex on Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}, which is a convex subset of itself. For xRnx\in\mathbb{R}^{n} let ϕx:RnR\phi_{x}:\mathbb{R}^{n}\to\mathbb{R} be given by ϕx(z)=f(z)+12xz2\phi_{x}(z)=f(z)+\tfrac{1}{2}\lVert x-z\rVert^{2}; by Existence and Uniqueness of the Proximal Minimiser of a Convex Function §minimiser there is exactly one point of Rn\mathbb{R}^{n} at which ϕx\phi_{x} attains its least value on Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}, so the following assigns to each xx a well-determined point.

Definition. The proximal map of ff is the map Jf:RnRnJ_{f}:\mathbb{R}^{n}\to\mathbb{R}^{n} sending each xRnx\in\mathbb{R}^{n} to the unique yRny\in\mathbb{R}^{n} such that ϕx(y)ϕx(z)\phi_{x}(y)\le\phi_{x}(z) for every zRnz\in\mathbb{R}^{n}. When ff is clear from the context we write JJ for JfJ_{f}.

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