 Cyclic symmetry averaging (source code)

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= Cyclic symmetry averaging

If a convex subset of $\mathbb R^n$ is invariant under cyclic coordinate permutation, averaging the $n$ cyclic images of $x$ shows that
$$
\left(\frac1n\sum_jx_j,\ldots,\frac1n\sum_jx_j\right)
$$
also belongs to the set.

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