Balayage defined by the nonnegative convex functions
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- by P. Fischer and J. A. R. Holbrook PDF
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Abstract:
We study the Choquet order induced on measures on a linear space by the cone of nonnegative convex functions. We are concerned mainly with discrete measures, and the following result is typical. Let ${x_1}, \ldots ,{x_r},{y_1}, \ldots ,{y_n}$, where $r \leqslant n$, be points in ${{\mathbf {R}}^d}$. Then \[ \sum \limits _1^r {f({x_k}) \leqslant } \sum \limits _1^n {f({y_k})} \] for all nonnegative, continuous, convex functions f if, and only if, there exists a doubly stochastic matrix M such that \[ {x_j} = \sum \limits _{k = 1}^n {{m_{jk}}{y_k}\quad (j = 1, \ldots ,r).} \] In the case $d = 1$, this result may be found in the work of L. Mirsky; our methods allow us to place such results in a general setting.References
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- © Copyright 1980 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1980), 445-448
- MSC: Primary 46A55; Secondary 26B25
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1980-0567989-9
- MathSciNet review: 567989