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Conjugates and Legendre Transforms of Convex Functions
Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 19 (1967) no. 1, pp. 200-205

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Fenchel's conjugate correspondence for convex functions may be viewed as a generalization of the classical Legendre correspondence, as indicated briefly in (6). Here the relationship between the two correspondences will be described in detail. Essentially, the conjugate reduces to the Legendre transform if and only if the subdifferential of the convex function is a one-to-one mapping. The one-to-oneness is equivalent to differentiability and strict convexity, plus a condition that the function become infinitely steep near boundary points of its effective domain. These conditions are shown to be the very ones under which the Legendre correspondence is well-defined and symmetric among convex functions. Facts about Legendre transforms may thus be deduced using the elegant, geometrically motivated methods of Fenchel. This has definite advantages over the more restrictive classical treatment of the Legendre transformation in terms of implicit functions, determinants, and the like. 
Rockafellar, R. T. Conjugates and Legendre Transforms of Convex Functions. Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 19 (1967) no. 1, pp. 200-205. doi: 10.4153/CJM-1967-012-4
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