Duality in Optimization

Duality in the optimization context basically means the existence of an equivalent representation of the optimization problem in linear form, coming from the connection between linearity and convexity. Basically if a person's decision behavior is more rational (convexity of consumption set), it will be more regular and predictable (convertable to linear optimization of the dual problem). A deeper root of such a property lies in the property of binary ordering.

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