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Convex Hessians and standard-basis Hessian squares

Definition
KLSModular_FunctionalInequalities_Analysis_BakryEmery_Bochner_Basic

by Lazyfill · Oct 25, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

functional-inequalitiesklskls-conjecturekls-modularlog-concavemodule-context

convexOn_line states that restricting a convex function UUU to every affine line t↦x+tvt\mapsto x+t vt↦x+tv remains convex, and hasDerivAt_line, deriv_line, and deriv_deriv_line identify its first and second one-dimensional derivatives with directional derivatives and the Hessian form. Thus bilinearIteratedFDerivTwo_nonneg_of_convexOn states that a C2C^2C2 convex function has nonnegative Hessian quadratic form D2U(x)(v,v)D^2U(x)(v,v)D2U(x)(v,v). The definition hessianSqStdBasis is the fixed-standard-basis sum ∑i∑j(D2f(x)(ei,ej))2\sum_i\sum_j(D^2f(x)(e_i,e_j))^2∑i​∑j​(D2f(x)(ei​,ej​))2; no basis-independence assertion is included.

Original module imports

import FunctionalInequalities.Analysis.BakryEmery.Gamma
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Deriv
import Mathlib.Analysis.InnerProductSpace.Calculus
import Mathlib.Analysis.Calculus.Deriv.Inv
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Sqrt

Original declaration excerpt

Shown in the original module context.

def hessianSqStdBasis (f : E → ℝ) (x : E) : ℝ :=
  ∑ i, ∑ j,
    (bilinearIteratedFDerivTwo ℝ f x (stdOrthonormalBasis ℝ E i) (stdOrthonormalBasis ℝ E j)) ^ 2

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Direct project imports: Analysis/BakryEmery/Gamma.

Theorems in source order:

  • laplacian_norm_gradient_sq
  • inner_gradient_gradient_laplacian
  • inner_gradient_gradient_inner
  • gammaTwo_eq_hessianSqStdBasis_add

Project result: The KLS conjecture.

Original module · FunctionalInequalities.Analysis.BakryEmery.Bochner.Basic · Frozen source 408915f.

Definition code
import Definitions.Def_KLSModular_FunctionalInequalities_Analysis_BakryEmery_Gamma
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Deriv
import Mathlib.Analysis.InnerProductSpace.Calculus
import Mathlib.Analysis.Calculus.Deriv.Inv
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Sqrt

noncomputable section
open InnerProductSpace
open scoped ContDiff RealInnerProductSpace
namespace FunctionalInequalities
namespace Analysis
namespace BakryEmery
universe u
variable {E : Type u} [NormedAddCommGroup E] [InnerProductSpace ℝ E]
section ConvexHessian
/-- The restriction of a convex function to a line is convex. -/
theorem convexOn_line {U : E → ℝ} (hU : ConvexOn ℝ Set.univ U) (x v : E) :
    ConvexOn ℝ Set.univ (fun t : ℝ => U (x + t • v)) := by
  refine ⟨convex_univ, fun s _ t _ a b ha hb hab => ?_⟩
  have h := hU.2 (Set.mem_univ (x + s • v)) (Set.mem_univ (x + t • v)) ha hb hab
  have hpt : x + (a • s + b • t) • v = a • (x + s • v) + b • (x + t • v) := by
    have hx : x = a • x + b • x := by rw [← add_smul, hab, one_smul]
    conv_lhs => rw [hx]
    simp only [smul_add, smul_smul, add_smul, smul_eq_mul]
    abel
  simp only [smul_eq_mul] at hpt ⊢
  rw [hpt]
  exact h
/-- The line `t ↦ x + t v` has derivative `v`. -/
theorem hasDerivAt_line (x v : E) (t : ℝ) : HasDerivAt (fun t : ℝ => x + t • v) v t := by
  simpa using ((hasDerivAt_id t).smul_const v).const_add x
/-- The derivative of a `C¹` function along a line is the directional derivative. -/
theorem deriv_line {U : E → ℝ} (hU : ContDiff ℝ 1 U) (x v : E) :
    deriv (fun t : ℝ => U (x + t • v)) = fun t => fderiv ℝ U (x + t • v) v :=
  funext fun t =>
    ((hU.differentiable one_ne_zero _).hasFDerivAt.comp_hasDerivAt t (hasDerivAt_line x v t)).deriv
/-- The second derivative at `0` of a `C²` function along the line `t ↦ x + t v` is the Hessian
`D²U(x)(v, v)`. -/
theorem deriv_deriv_line {U : E → ℝ} (hU : ContDiff ℝ 2 U) (x v : E) :
    deriv (deriv (fun t : ℝ => U (x + t • v))) 0 = bilinearIteratedFDerivTwo ℝ U x v v := by
  rw [deriv_line (hU.of_le (by norm_num)) x v]
  have hU1 : ContDiff ℝ 1 (fderiv ℝ U) := hU.fderiv_right (m := 1) (by norm_num)
  have hx0 : x + (0 : ℝ) • v = x := by simp
  have h2 : HasDerivAt (fun t : ℝ => fderiv ℝ U (x + t • v)) (fderiv ℝ (fderiv ℝ U) x v) 0 := by
    have hd : HasFDerivAt (fderiv ℝ U) (fderiv ℝ (fderiv ℝ U) x) (x + (0 : ℝ) • v) := by
      rw [hx0]
      exact (hU1.differentiable one_ne_zero x).hasFDerivAt
    exact hd.comp_hasDerivAt (0 : ℝ) (hasDerivAt_line x v 0)
  have h3 := h2.clm_apply (hasDerivAt_const (0 : ℝ) v)
  have h4 : deriv (fun t : ℝ => fderiv ℝ U (x + t • v) v) 0 = fderiv ℝ (fderiv ℝ U) x v v := by
    simpa using h3.deriv
  rw [h4]
  rfl
/-- **convex Hessian positivity**: the Hessian of a `C²` convex function is positive semidefinite,
`0 ≤ D²U(x)(v, v)` for all `x v`. -/
theorem bilinearIteratedFDerivTwo_nonneg_of_convexOn {U : E → ℝ} (hU : ContDiff ℝ 2 U)
    (hconv : ConvexOn ℝ Set.univ U) (x v : E) :
    0 ≤ bilinearIteratedFDerivTwo ℝ U x v v := by
  rw [← deriv_deriv_line hU x v]
  have hφ : ∀ t : ℝ, DifferentiableAt ℝ (fun t : ℝ => U (x + t • v)) t := fun t =>
    ((hU.differentiable (by norm_num) _).hasFDerivAt.comp_hasDerivAt t
      (hasDerivAt_line x v t)).differentiableAt
  have hmono : Monotone (deriv (fun t : ℝ => U (x + t • v))) :=
    monotoneOn_univ.mp (ConvexOn.monotoneOn_deriv (convexOn_line hconv x v) fun t _ => hφ t)
  exact hmono.deriv_nonneg
end ConvexHessian
section HessianSq
variable [FiniteDimensional ℝ E]
/-- The sum of the squared Hessian entries in the **fixed** standard orthonormal basis,
`∑ᵢ ∑ⱼ (D²f(x)(eᵢ, eⱼ))²`. Basis independence is not proved here; this is not yet an invariant
Hilbert–Schmidt norm. -/
def hessianSqStdBasis (f : E → ℝ) (x : E) : ℝ :=
  ∑ i, ∑ j,
    (bilinearIteratedFDerivTwo ℝ f x (stdOrthonormalBasis ℝ E i) (stdOrthonormalBasis ℝ E j)) ^ 2
end HessianSq
end BakryEmery
end Analysis
end FunctionalInequalities
Source
Lean source: https://github.com/human-ai-mathematics/kls-lean/blob/408915f/formalization/FunctionalInequalities/Analysis/BakryEmery/Bochner/Basic.lean#L63-L131 (repository human-ai-mathematics/kls-lean, commit 408915f, module `FunctionalInequalities.Analysis.BakryEmery.Bochner.Basic`, definition bundle `KLSModular_FunctionalInequalities_Analysis_BakryEmery_Bochner_Basic`; the repository is private at upload time).

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