Characterizing sub-topical functions

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman

10.22072/wala.2017.61257.1110

Abstract

In this paper, we first give a characterization of sub-topical functions with respect to their lower level sets and epigraph. Next, by using two different classes of elementary functions, we present a characterization of sub-topical functions with respect to their polar functions, and investigate the relation between polar functions and support sets of this class of functions. Finally, we obtain more results on the polar of sub-topical functions.

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