DUAL SETS OF ENVELOPES AND CHARACTERISTIC REGIONS OF QUASI

DUAL SETS OF ENVELOPES AND CHARACTERISTIC REGIONS OF QUASI–POLYNOMIALS

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER Sui Sun Cheng and Yi-Zhong Lin	i
Prologue Sui Sun Cheng and Yi-Zhong Lin	1
Envelopes and Dual Sets Sui Sun Cheng and Yi-Zhong Lin	9
Dual Sets of Convex-Concave Functions Sui Sun Cheng and Yi-Zhong Lin	19
Quasi-Polynomials Sui Sun Cheng and Yi-Zhong Lin	51
C\(0, ∞)-Characteristic Regions of Real Polynomials Sui Sun Cheng and Yi-Zhong Lin	61
C\(0,∞)-Characteristic Regions of Real Δ-Polynomials Sui Sun Cheng and Yi-Zhong Lin	85
C\R-Characteristic Regions of ∇-Polynomials Sui Sun Cheng and Yi-Zhong Lin	157
BACK MATTER Sui Sun Cheng and Yi-Zhong Lin	207
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