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Converse Ohlin’s lemma for convex and strongly convex functions

  • Mirosław Adamek ORCID logo EMAIL logo and Kazimierz Nikodem ORCID logo
Published/Copyright: October 26, 2022

Abstract

Theorems which are converse to the Ohlin lemma for convex and strongly convex functions are proved. New proofs of probabilistic characterizations of convex and strongly convex functions are presented.

MSC 2010: 26A51; 39B62; 26D15

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Received: 2021-06-17
Revised: 2021-10-21
Accepted: 2021-11-01
Published Online: 2022-10-26
Published in Print: 2023-06-01

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