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then is called strictly convex. [1]Convex functions are related to convex sets. Specifically, the function is convex if and only if its epigraph. A function (in black) is convex if and only if its epigraph, which is the region above its graph (in green), is a convex set.
Equivalently, a function is convex if its epigraph (the set of points on or above the graph of the function) is a convex set. In simple terms, a convex function graph is shaped like a cup (or a straight line like a linear function), while a concave function's graph is shaped like a cap .
A bipartite graph, (U ∪ V, E), is said to be convex over the vertex set U if U can be enumerated such that for all v ∈ V the vertices adjacent to v are consecutive. Convexity over V is defined analogously. A bipartite graph (U ∪ V, E) that is convex over both U and V is said to be biconvex or doubly convex.
Convex geometry is a relatively young mathematical discipline. Although the first known contributions to convex geometry date back to antiquity and can be traced in the works of Euclid and Archimedes, it became an independent branch of mathematics at the turn of the 20th century, mainly due to the works of Hermann Brunn and Hermann Minkowski in dimensions two and three.
In this graph, triangle 1-2-5 is convex, but path 2-3-4 is not, because it does not include one of the two shortest paths from 2 to 4. In metric graph theory , a convex subgraph of an undirected graph G is a subgraph that includes every shortest path in G between two of its vertices.
The lower bound on worst-case running time of output-sensitive convex hull algorithms was established to be Ω(n log h) in the planar case. [1] There are several algorithms which attain this optimal time complexity. The earliest one was introduced by Kirkpatrick and Seidel in 1986 (who called it "the ultimate convex hull algorithm").
A plane curve is the image of any continuous function from an interval to the Euclidean plane.Intuitively, it is a set of points that could be traced out by a moving point. More specifically, smooth curves generally at least require that the function from the interval to the plane be continuously differentiable, and in some contexts are defined to require higher derivative
In mathematics, a convex graph may be a convex bipartite graph; a convex plane graph; the graph of a convex function This page was last edited on 28 ...