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In this paper a duality is introduced in a concave sense and its relationship with Toland's duality is studied along with several formulas dealing with the conjugates of differences of convex functions.
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Volle, M. Concave duality: Application to problems dealing with difference of functions. Mathematical Programming 41, 261–278 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01580767
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01580767