Does the property of non-increasing slope be generalized to a concave function for multiple variables?
Ty Moore
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2022-11-22
Does the property of non-increasing slope be generalized to a concave function for multiple variables?
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cenjene9gw
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2022-11-23Added 13 answers
A common characterization requires you take two derivatives and work with the Hessian. I'm going to phrase this in the convex case (but the concave case is analogous, just multiply everything by ). By calculus, " is always increasing" is the same as saying " is always positive" (provided exists). You have observed that this property holds for convex functions. More generally, the following is a common result: If a real-valued function defined on a real Hilbert space (e.g. ) has a well-defined Hessian, then