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$p(x) \geq 0$ is convex, and $q(x) > 0$ is concave.

How to prove $f(x) = \frac{p(x)}{q(x)}$ is quasiconvex?

My proof is using t-sublevel set:

$\{x | \frac{p(x)}{q(x)} \leq t\}$ is equivalent to $\{x | p(x)-tq(x) \leq 0\}$
So, if $t \geq 0$, then we can know that $p(x)-tq(x)$ is a convex function with its domain a convex set.

So we can prove $f(x)$ is quasi-convex.

My question is:

  1. t is restricted to $\geq0$, which is not for all t, how could we say $f(x)$ is quasi-convex?
  2. The reason we cannot say $f(x)$ is convex is we cannot prove epigraph of $f(x)$ is convex?
sleeve chen
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