Density fourth-power functional

ID: density-fourth-power-functional

Along bounded density tilts, this functional has derivative . At a bounded baseline density its canonical gradient, relative to these regular paths, is . A common local bound on nearby densities suffices to obtain the same derivative along arbitrary differentiable-in-quadratic-mean paths in that bounded neighborhood. A bounded baseline alone is insufficient, because of the spike obstruction to density-power differentiability.

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