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world:max
2023/11/14 18:37

Statement

Let where . Show that the argmin of can be written as

Proof

The function is strictly convex and . This implies that admits a unique minimizer .

  • Case 1: , in which case . This implies . Therefore , which implies . Therefore

from which we deduce . Using again , we deduce and finally,

  • Case 2: . In this case, for all , , which is equivalent to . Dividing by and letting , we get which in turn implies . This shows and we therefore have again:
world/max.txt · Last modified: 2022/03/16 07:40 (external edit)