Convex Optimization · Problem 11.13

Interior-point methods — Boyd & Vandenberghe

Mathematics — Optimization · self-concordance-barrier-functions

Problem

Show that the function tylog⁡y−log⁡yty \log y - \log y is self-concordant on R++\mathbf{R}_{++}, for all t≥0t \geq 0.

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