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Astral space is constructed to be as small as possible while still ensuring that all linear functions can be continuously extended to the new space. Although astral space includes all of Rn, it is not a vector space, nor even a metric space. However, it is sufficiently well-structured to allow useful and meaningful extensions of such concepts as convexity, conjugacy, and subdifferentials. We develop these concepts and analyze various properties of convex functions on astral space, including the detailed structure of their minimizers, exact characterizations of continuity, and convergence of descent algorithms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all convex functions on Rn have finite minimizers; some can only be minimized by a sequence as it heads to infinity. In this work, we aim to develop a theory for understanding such minimizers at infinity. We study astral space, a compact extension of Rn to which such points at infinity have been added. 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