DOI: 10.68381/jca21015 ISSN: 0944-6532

Legendre-Type Integrands and Convex Integral Functions

Jonathan M. Borwein, Liangjin Yao

We study the properties of integral functionals induced on

L^1_E(S,\mu) L E 1 ( S , μ )
by closed convex functions on a Euclidean space E. We give sufficient conditions for such integral functions to be strongly rotund (well-posed). We show that in this generality functions such as the Boltzmann-Shannon entropy and the Fermi-Dirac entropy are strongly rotund. We also study convergence in measure and give various limiting counterexample.