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Products of convex functions need not be convex

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The affine functions x and −x are both convex functions on R, but their product is −x2. Its value at zero exceeds the average of its values at −1 and 1, contradicting convexity. Thus closure under nonnegative linear combinations does not imply closure under products.

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