👉 In mathematics, a coercive function is a real-valued function that satisfies the following property: For all x, y in R (the set of all real numbers), if xy > 0, then f(x) ≥ 0. This means that for any two elements x and y in the domain of the function, if x is greater than or equal to y, then the value of the function at x will be greater than or equal to the value of the function at y. This
