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Today it means: Having the property that there exists a constant L ≥ 0 such that for all x and y in the domain, <Ax-Ay, x-y> is greater than or equal to 1/L ||Ax - Ay||<sup>2</sup>, where Ax is the operator applied to x. Full definition →
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