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Mollification Preserves Semiconvexity

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Reason: Initial publication: mollification preserves semiconvexity with the same constant on the delta-interior.

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Let nn be a natural number with 1n1\le n, let R\mathbb{R} be the real numbers with the order \le of their ordered field structure, write s<ts<t to mean that sts\le t and sts\ne t, let s|s| be the absolute value of ss, and let dRd_{\mathbb{R}} be the metric on R\mathbb{R} of The Absolute Value Metric on the Real Line. Regard Euclidean space Rn\mathbb{R}^{n} as a real vector space, with the sum of points and the scalar multiple, and write xyx-y for the difference of points. Let \lVert\,\cdot\,\rVert be the Euclidean norm on Rn\mathbb{R}^{n} and let dd be the Euclidean distance, a metric on Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}; by Metric Open Sets Form a Topology the subsets open in (Rn,d)(\mathbb{R}^{n},d) form a topology. Write Bˉ(x,r)\bar B(x,r) for the closed ball in (Rn,d)(\mathbb{R}^{n},d) and let λn\lambda_{n} be Lebesgue measure on the Borel σ\sigma-algebra of Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}.

Let ΩRn\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}^{n} be open in (Rn,d)(\mathbb{R}^{n},d) and convex, let f:ΩRf:\Omega\to\mathbb{R} be continuous on Ω\Omega as a map from (Rn,d)(\mathbb{R}^{n},d) into (R,dR)(\mathbb{R},d_{\mathbb{R}}), let μR\mu\in\mathbb{R} satisfy 0μ0\le\mu, and suppose that ff is semiconvex on Ω\Omega with constant μ\mu.

Let δR\delta\in\mathbb{R} with 0<δ0<\delta and let ρ\rho be a mollifier kernel of radius δ\delta on Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}; being smooth it is continuous on Rn\mathbb{R}^{n} by claim 3 of Euclidean Space is Open in Itself, and CkC^k Maps are Continuous, and it vanishes at every yy with δ<y\delta<\lVert y\rVert, so the convolution fρf*\rho is defined on

Ωδ={xRn:Bˉ(x,δ)Ω},\Omega^{\delta}=\{x\in\mathbb{R}^{n}:\bar B(x,\delta)\subseteq\Omega\},

a set open by claim 2 of The δ\delta-Interior of an Open Subset of Rn\mathbb{R}^n is Open and convex by The δ\delta-Interior of a Convex Subset of Rn\mathbb{R}^n is Convex.

Then fρf*\rho is semiconvex on Ωδ\Omega^{\delta} with constant μ\mu.

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