In this chapter, we present preliminaries on convex functions -- definitions via convexity inequality and via the convexity of the epigraph, basic examples, Jensen’s inequality, convexity of sublevel sets; we introduce the notion of the domain of a convex function and its representation as a function taking values in the extended real axis and introduce the concept of a proper convex function.
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