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Record Nr.

UNINA9910146304803321

Autore

Simons Stephen <1938->

Titolo

Minimax and Monotonicity / / by Stephen Simons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1998

ISBN

3-540-68931-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 1998.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 172 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 1617-9692 ; ; 1693

Classificazione

49J35

47H05

Disciplina

515.7248

Soggetti

Functional analysis

Operator theory

System theory

Control theory

Mathematical optimization

Calculus of variations

Functional Analysis

Operator Theory

Systems Theory, Control

Calculus of Variations and Optimization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Functional analytic preliminaries -- Multifunctions -- A digression into convex analysis -- General monotone multifunctions -- The sum problem for reflexive spaces -- Special maximal monotone multifunctions -- Subdifferentials -- Discontinuous positive linear operators -- The sum problem for general banach spaces -- Open problems.

Sommario/riassunto

Focussing on the theory (both classical and recent) of monotone multifunctions on a (possibly nonreflexive) Banach space, this book looks at the big convexification of a multifunction; convex functions associated with a multifunction; minimax theorems as a tool in functional analysis and convex analysis. It includes new results on the existence of continuous linear functionals; the conjugates, biconjugates



and subdifferentials of convex lower semicontinuous functions, Fenchel duality; (possibly unbounded) positive linear operators from a Banach space into its dual; the sum of maximal monotone operators, and a list of open problems. The reader is expected to know basic functional analysis and calculus of variations, including the Bahn-Banach theorem, Banach-Alaoglu theorem, Ekeland's variational principle.