Self-dual smoothing of convex and saddle functions

Journal of Convex Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 179-190

  Goebel, Rafal ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximation; Convex functions; Duality; Moreau envelopes; Saddle functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 39749115612     PISSN: 09446532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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