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It is known that a non-concave smooth function must be locally convex somewhere.

Let me drop smoothness.

Let $f:\mathbb R^2\to\mathbb R$ be non-concave.

We say $f$ is locally pseudo-convex if there exists $x,y\in\mathbb R^2$ such that $f(x)=f(y)$ and $f(x)\geq f(\overline{xy})$. $f(\overline{xy})$ is the image of the segment $\overline{xy}$.

Can we say that $f$ must be pseudo-convex somewhere?

The only counter-example that I can think of must be generated by Weierstrass function or similar ones. However, a Weierstrass function seems to be pseudo-convex looking at the graph.

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