Look up concave or concavity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Concave or concavity may refer to: Concave lens Concave mirror Concave function, the...

In mathematics, a concave function is one for which the value at any convex combination of elements in the domain is greater than or equal to the convex...

A simple polygon that is not convex is called concave, non-convex or reentrant. A concave polygon will always have at least one reflex interior angle—that...

reflecting surface. The surface may be either convex (bulging outward) or concave (recessed inward). Most curved mirrors have surfaces that are shaped like...

Convex and Concave is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in March 1955. It depicts an ornate architectural structure with...

{\displaystyle \cup } (or a straight line like a linear function), while a concave function's graph is shaped like a cap ∩ {\displaystyle \cap } . A twice-differentiable...

functions are used in the study of majorization. A function f is 'Schur-concave' if its negative, −f, is Schur-convex. Every function that is convex and...

Concave cake (Chinese: 凹蛋糕; pinyin: āodàngāo, half-cooked cake) became popular in Chinese society after a Taiwanese variety show introduced it. The cake...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tornadoes. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pictures of tornadoes. A tornado is a violently rotating column...

lens with two concave surfaces is biconcave (or just concave). If one of the surfaces is flat, the lens is plano-convex or plano-concave depending on the...

analysis, a non-negative function f : Rn → R+ is logarithmically concave (or log-concave for short) if its domain is a convex set, and if it satisfies the...

Log-concave may refer to: Logarithmically concave function Logarithmically concave measure Logarithmically concave sequence This disambiguation page lists...

is quasiconvex. A concave function can be quasiconvex. For example, x ↦ log ⁡ ( x ) {\displaystyle x\mapsto \log(x)} is both concave and quasiconvex. Any...

been called the "concave" Hollow Earth hypothesis or skycentrism. Cyrus Teed, a doctor from upstate New York, proposed such a concave Hollow Earth in 1869...

a convex polygon is sometimes called a concave polygon, and some sources more generally use the term concave set to mean a non-convex set, but most authorities...

an) of nonnegative real numbers is called a logarithmically concave sequence, or a log-concave sequence for short, if ai2 ≥ ai−1ai+1 holds for 0 < i < n...

minimizing convex functions over convex sets (or, equivalently, maximizing concave functions over convex sets). Many classes of convex optimization problems...

In mathematics, curvature is any of several strongly related concepts in geometry that intuitively measure the amount by which a curve deviates from being...

of the polygon does not cross itself. All convex polygons are simple. Concave: Non-convex and simple. There is at least one interior angle greater than...

Pseudopostega concava is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Donald R. Davis and Jonas R. Stonis, 2007. "A Revision of the New World...

(self-intersecting, or crossed). Simple quadrilaterals are either convex or concave. The interior angles of a simple (and planar) quadrilateral ABCD add up...

surface of the container or another object, produced by surface tension. A concave meniscus occurs when the attraction between the particles of the liquid...

it is a point where the function changes from being concave (concave downward) to convex (concave upward), or vice versa. For the graph of a function...

to go past these limiting cases, creating concave or nonconvex pyritohedra. The endo-dodecahedron is concave and equilateral; it can tessellate space with...

replacing it. Other types of ceiling include the cathedral ceiling, the concave or barrel-shaped ceiling, the stretched ceiling and the coffered ceiling...

In differential geometry, the Gaussian curvature or Gauss curvature Κ of a smooth surface in three-dimensional space at a point is the product of the principal...

R n {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{n}} is called logarithmically concave (or log-concave for short) if, for any compact subsets A and B of R n {\displaystyle...

Rogers (1804–1882) took over the lead. By the end of the 19th century, the concave gratings of Henry Augustus Rowland (1848–1901) were the best available...

widely known as the Nuss procedure, involves slipping in one or more concave steel bars into the chest, underneath the sternum. The bar is flipped to...

problem (which would be clearly indicated, such as by the function being concave rather than convex) then the definition of "proper" is defined in an analogous...