The purpose of this paper is to describe three techniques that are useful for the investigation of monotone sets and multifunctions, and give two applications of them. The three techniques use the “fg–theorem”, the “big convexification” of a subset of E × E∗ or a multifunction E 7→ 2E (we suppose throughout that E is a nontrivial real Banach space with dual E∗), and the “convex function associa...

• Banach-Alaoglu: compactness of polars • Variant Banach-Steinhaus/uniform boundedness • Second polars • Weak boundedness implies boundedness • Weak-to-strong differentiability The comparison of weak and strong differentiability is due to Grothendieck, although the original sources are not widely available.

‎It is well known that every (real or complex) normed linear space $L$ is isometrically embeddable into $C(X)$ for some compact Hausdorff space $X$‎. ‎Here $X$ is the closed unit ball of $L^*$ (the set of all continuous scalar-valued linear mappings on $L$) endowed with the weak$^*$ topology‎, ‎which is compact by the Banach--Alaoglu theorem‎. ‎We prove that the compact Hausdorff space $X$ can ...

This paper studies forward and reverse projections for the Rényi divergence of order α ∈ (0,∞) on α-convex sets. The forward projection on such a set is motivated by some works of Tsallis et al. in statistical physics, and the reverse projection is motivated by robust statistics. In a recent work, van Erven and Harremoës proved a Pythagorean inequality for Rényi divergences on α-convex sets und...

This paper studies forward and reverse projections for the Rényi divergence of order α ∈ (0,∞) on α-convex sets. The forward projection on such a set is motivated by some works of Tsallis et al. in statistical physics, and the reverse projection is motivated by robust statistics. In a recent work, van Erven and Harremoës proved a Pythagorean inequality for Rényi divergences on α-convex sets und...

These notes give a summary of results that everyone who does work in functional analysis should know about the weak topology on locally convex topological vector spaces and the weak-* topology on their dual spaces. The most striking of the results we prove is Theorem 9, which shows that a subset of a locally convex space is bounded if and only if it is weakly bounded. It is straightforward to p...

The first point is to describe vector spaces with topologies arising from (separating) families of semi-norms. These all turn out to be locally convex, for straightforward reasons. The second point is to check that any locally convex topological vectorspace's topology can be given by a collection of seminorms. These seminorms are made in a natural way from a local basis consisting of balanced c...

We prove a large deviation principle for Minkowski sums of i.i.d. random compact sets in a Banach space, that is, the analog of Cramér theorem for random compact sets. Several works have been devoted to deriving limit theorems for random sets. For i.i.d. random compact sets in R, the law of large numbers was initially proved by Artstein and Vitale [1] and the central limit theorem by Cressie [3...

We give the basic de nitions for pointfree functional analysis and present constructive proofs of the Alaoglu and Hahn Banach theorems in the set ting of formal topology Introduction We present the basic concepts and de nitions needed in a pointfree approach to functional analysis via formal topology Our main results are the constructive proofs of localic formulations of the Alaoglu and Helly H...