• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.61 no.2
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• pp.469-477
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• 2024

For a knot in the 3-sphere, the Upsilon invariant is a piecewise linear function defined on the interval [0, 2]. It is known that this invariant of an L-space knot is the Legendre-Fenchel transform (or, convex conjugate) of a certain gap function derived from the Alexander polynomial. To recover an information lost in the Upsilon invariant, Kim and Livingston introduced the secondary Upsilon invariant. In this note, we prove that the secondary Upsilon invariant of an L-space knot is a concave conjugate of a restricted gap function. Also, a similar argument gives an alternative proof of the above fact that the Upsilon invariant of an L-space knot is a convex conjugate of a gap function.

• The Pure and Applied Mathematics
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.179-192
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• 2012

We find the solution minimizing the shortfall risk by using the Lagrange-multiplier method. The conventional duality method in the expected utility maximization problem is used and we get the same results as in the paper [21].