Monday, 12 January 2015

continuity - Convex function with discontinuous derivative



I am interested in this question:




Find a differentiable convex function such that its derivative is not continuous.





I found out that we cannot find such function if its domain is R, since every differentiable convex function f:RR is continuously differentiable (as proved here).



Therefore we have to look for multivariable functions, but it is not an easy work.



Thank you very much.


Answer




Suppose ΩRn is an open convex set, and f:ΩR is a differentiable convex function. Then f is continuous on Ω.





This is a theorem, for example, in Convex Analysis by Rockafellar, page 246.


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