Fitzpatrick functions, cyclic monotonicity and Rockafellar's antiderivative (Q867841)

The authors examine a sequence of Fitzpatrick functions associated with a monotone operator on a real Banach space \(X\). They show that for any maximal cyclically monotone operator, the pointwise supremum of the sequence is closely related to Rockafellar's antiderivative. In contrast to Rockafellar's result, a maximal \(3\)-cyclically monotone operator need not be maximal monotone. The Fitzpatrick family of the subdifferential operator of a sublinear and of an indicator function is studied in detail. A new proof of Moreau's result concerning the convexity of the set of proximal mappings is given.