Can the functions $\|y-A x\|_1$ or $\|y-A x\|_\infty$ ever be affine over $x \geq 0$ given certain structure on $A$?

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Question:

Any valid norm is convex. Given $A \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$, $y \in \mathbb{R}^n$, I am wondering under what conditions on $y$ and $A$ (if any) the functions $$ \|y- Ax\|_1 $$ and $$ \| y- A x \|_\infty, $$ are affine over $x \geq 0$.

I am only interested in the non-trivial case, i.e., where $A$ is not a non-negative/non-positive matrix.

Assumptions (optional, if helpful) :

  • You can assume that $\mathsf{sign}(y) \in \{\pm 1\}^n$ is known.
  • You can assume that $A \succeq 0$.

What I have tried:

For the $\ell_1$ norm, from the dual norm characization: $$ \| y - Ax \|_1 = \sup_{u : \|u\|_\infty \leq 1 } u^\top(y - Ax), $$ I think that the norm is affine over $x \geq 0$ if $$ A^\top \textsf{sign}(y) \leq 0, $$ but I'm uncertain if this is correct. I also don't know if similar conditions hold for $\| y- A x\|_\infty$.