Lagrange’s theorem, convex functions and Gauss map

Abstract

As one of the main results we prove that if f has Lagrange unique property then f is strictly convex or concave (we do not assume continuity of the derivative), Theorem 2.1. We give two different proofs of Theorem 2.1 (one mainly using Lagrange theorem and the other using Darboux theorem). In addition, we give a few characterizations of strictly convex curves, in Theorem 3.5. As an application of it, we give characterization of strictly convex planar curves, which have only tangents at every point, by injective of the Gauss map. Also without the differentiability hypothesis we get the characterization of strictly convex or concave functions by two points property, Theorem 4.2.