Ekeland's variational principle

In mathematical analysis, Ekeland's variational principle, discovered by Ivar Ekeland,[1][2][3] is a theorem that asserts that there exists nearly optimal solutions to some optimization problems.

Ekeland's variational principle can be used when the lower level set of a minimization problems is not compact, so that the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem cannot be applied. Ekeland's principle relies on the completeness of the metric space.[4]

Ekeland's principle leads to a quick proof of the Caristi fixed point theorem.[4][5]

Ekeland's principle has been shown by F. Sullivan to be equivalent to completeness of metric spaces.

Ekeland was associated with the Paris Dauphine University when he proposed this theorem.[1]

Statement of the theorem

Let (X, d) be a complete metric space, and let F: X → R ∪ {+∞} be a lower semicontinuous functional on X that is bounded below and not identically equal to +∞. Fix ε > 0 and a point u ∈ X such that

Then there exists a point v ∈ X such that

and, for all w ≠ v,

References

  1. 1 2 Ekeland, Ivar (1974). "On the variational principle". J. Math. Anal. Appl. 47: 324–353. ISSN 0022-247X. doi:10.1016/0022-247X(74)90025-0.
  2. ↑ Ekeland, Ivar (1979). "Nonconvex minimization problems". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. New Series. 1 (3): 443–474. MR 526967. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14595-6.
  3. ↑ Ekeland, Ivar; Temam, Roger (1999). Convex analysis and variational problems. Classics in applied mathematics. 28 (Corrected reprinting of the (1976) North-Holland ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). pp. 357–373. ISBN 0-89871-450-8. MR 1727362.
  4. 1 2 Kirk, William A.; Goebel, Kazimierz (1990). Topics in Metric Fixed Point Theory. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-38289-0.
  5. ↑ Ok, Efe (2007). "D: Continuity I". Real Analysis with Economic Applications (PDF). Princeton University Press. p. 664. ISBN 978-0-691-11768-3. Retrieved January 31, 2009.

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