 Coercive function (source code)

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= Coercive function
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= Coercivity
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= Radially unbounded function
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A real-valued function on a normed vector space is coercive when its value tends to positive infinity as the norm of its argument tends to infinity. A continuous coercive function on a finite-dimensional real vector space attains a global minimum.

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