On regularization in superreflexive Banach spaces by infimal convolution formulas

We present here a new method for approximating functions defined on superreflexive Banach spaces by differentiable functions with α-H¨older derivatives (for some 0 < α ≤ 1). The smooth approximation is given by means of an explicit formula enjoying good properties from the minimization point of v...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Cepedello Boiso, Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:1998
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/43525
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/43525
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Regularization in Banach spaces
Convex functions
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Sumario:We present here a new method for approximating functions defined on superreflexive Banach spaces by differentiable functions with α-H¨older derivatives (for some 0 < α ≤ 1). The smooth approximation is given by means of an explicit formula enjoying good properties from the minimization point of view. For instance, for any function f which is bounded below and uniformly continuous on bounded sets this formula gives a sequence of ∆-convex C1,α functions converging uniformly on bounded sets to f and preserving the infimum and the set of minimizers of f. The techniques we develop are based on the use of extended inf-convolution formulas and convexity properties such as the preservation of smoothness for the convex envelope of certain differentiable functions.