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The main result concerns the second-order differentiability of the marginal function of a convex twice differentiable function. The inf-convolution and the proximal algorithm are revised according to the result as examples.
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Crouzeix, JP., Hassouni, A. & Ocaña, E. A Short Note on the Twice Differentiability of the Marginal Function of a Convex Function. J Optim Theory Appl 198, 857–867 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-023-02267-4
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