Regularity of convex functions on Heisenberg groups
Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Serie 5, Volume 2 (2003) no. 4, p. 847-868

We discuss differentiability properties of convex functions on Heisenberg groups. We show that the notions of horizontal convexity (h-convexity) and viscosity convexity (v-convexity) are equivalent and that h-convex functions are locally Lipschitz continuous. Finally we exhibit Weierstrass-type h-convex functions which are nowhere differentiable in the vertical direction on a dense set or on a Cantor set of vertical lines.

Classification:  43A80,  26B25,  49L25 
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Balogh, Zoltán M.; Rickly, Matthieu. Regularity of convex functions on Heisenberg groups. Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Serie 5, Volume 2 (2003) no. 4, pp. 847-868. http://www.numdam.org/item/ASNSP_2003_5_2_4_847_0/

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