I encountered the following objective function:
$$D(x_1,x_2) = \frac{x_1}{a-x_2}+b$$
Is it convex? If I use the Hessian to determine its convexity, I have
$$H = \begin{bmatrix} 0 & 0 \\ 1 & \frac{2x_1}{(a-x_2)^3} \\ \end{bmatrix}$$
but the determinant of $H$ is zero, so we can't determine its convexity by using the Hessian value, right? So, how can we do? Thanks for any comment.