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Local Lipschitz Bound and Continuity for a Semiconvex Function on an Open Convex Set

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Reason: New lemma: a semiconvex function on an open convex set is Lipschitz on a closed ball around each point, hence continuous. Supplies the continuity hypothesis needed to apply the extreme value theorem in the Jensen chain. · 2,103 chars · 17 deps · depth 11

A semiconvex function on an open convex subset of Euclidean space is Lipschitz on a closed ball around each of its points, and is therefore continuous, in the explicit epsilon-delta form used by the extreme value theorem.

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Let nn be a natural number with 1n1\le n and let R\mathbb{R} be the real numbers with the order \le of their ordered field structure and the absolute value |\cdot|. Regard Euclidean space Rn\mathbb{R}^{n} as a real vector space, with the sum of points, the scalar multiple, and the difference yxy-x of points; write \lVert\,\cdot\,\rVert for the Euclidean norm and dEd_{E} for the Euclidean distance, a metric on Rn\mathbb{R}^{n} satisfying dE(x,y)=xyd_{E}(x,y)=\lVert x-y\rVert by claim 2 of Elementary Properties of the Euclidean Norm on Rn\mathbb{R}^n. Closed balls BˉdE(x,ρ)\bar{B}_{d_{E}}(x,\rho) are those of Closed Ball in a Metric Space.

Let URnU\subseteq\mathbb{R}^{n} be convex and open in (Rn,dE)(\mathbb{R}^{n},d_{E}), let μR\mu\in\mathbb{R} satisfy 0μ0\le\mu, and let φ:UR\varphi:U\to\mathbb{R} be semiconvex on UU with constant μ\mu. Then the following hold.

1. (Local Lipschitz bound) For every x0Ux_{0}\in U there are ρ,LR\rho,L\in\mathbb{R} with 0<ρ0<\rho and 0L0\le L such that BˉdE(x0,ρ)U\bar{B}_{d_{E}}(x_{0},\rho)\subseteq U and

φ(y)φ(x)Lyxfor all x,yBˉdE(x0,ρ).\bigl|\varphi(y)-\varphi(x)\bigr|\le L\,\lVert y-x\rVert\qquad\text{for all }x,y\in\bar{B}_{d_{E}}(x_{0},\rho).

2. (Continuity) For every SUS\subseteq U, every xSx\in S and every εR\varepsilon\in\mathbb{R} with 0<ε0<\varepsilon, there is δR\delta\in\mathbb{R} with 0<δ0<\delta such that every ySy\in S satisfying yx<δ\lVert y-x\rVert<\delta satisfies

φ(y)φ(x)<ε.\bigl|\varphi(y)-\varphi(x)\bigr|<\varepsilon .
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