Characterization of self-polar convex functions

Abstract

In a work by Artstein-Avidan and Milman the concept of polarity is generalized from the class of convex bodies to the larger class of convex functions. While the only self-polar convex body is the Euclidean ball, it turns out that there are numerous self-polar convex functions. In this work we give a complete characterization of all rotationally invariant self-polar convex functions on R^n.