Duality for the level sum of quasiconvex functions and applications

Abstract

We study a quasiconvex conjugation that transforms the level sum of functions into the pointwise sum of their conjugates and derive new duality results for the minimization of the max of two quasiconvex functions. Following Barron and al., we show that the level sum provides quasiconvex viscosity solutions for Hamilton-Jacobi equations in which the initial condition is a general continuous quasiconvex function which is not necessarily Lipschitz or bounded. © 1998 Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles.