Title
Remarks on Fenchel–Moreau conjugate in the setting of consumer theory
Date Issued
01 May 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Cunha G.
Oliveira M.
Universidade Católica de Brasilia
Publisher(s)
National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics, ANPEC
Abstract
In this manuscript we consider the conjugate notion focused from consumer theory as an interesting tool. According to us, conjugate notion remained undeveloped in economic theory because Fenchel's conjugate notion was introduced exclusively for proper convex lower semi continuous functions and convexity assumption is not natural in economic theory. Nevertheless, we introduce necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for consumer problem. Also, we consider a particular version of Fenchel–Moreau conjugate notion, for lower semi continuous functions recently introduced in the literature as a generalization of Fenchel's conjugate. Finally, we adapt it to closed functions in order to define a convex dual problem for consumer problem.
Start page
176
End page
184
Volume
17
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Matemáticas aplicadas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85061805226
Source
EconomiA
ISSN of the container
15177580
Sponsor(s)
Wilfredo Sosa was partially supported by CNPq Grants 302074/2012-0 and 471168/2013-0 . Part of this research was carried out during Wilfredo's visit to IMPA of Rio de Janeiro.
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