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Smoothing the Nonsmoothness

Chaohua Dong, Jiti Gao, Bin Peng, Yundong Tu

arXiv 28 Sep 2023 · Econometrics

arXiv:2309.16348 · PDF · DOI · OpenAlex · Extracted main text

Abstract

To tackle difficulties for theoretical studies in situations involving nonsmooth functions, we propose a sequence of infinitely differentiable functions to approximate the nonsmooth function under consideration. A rate of approximation is established and an illustration of its application is then provided.

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