Deformation of functionals having a unique critical point

DOI10.1007/BF01140348MaRDI QIDQ797822zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors N. A. Bobylev

Publication date 1983

Published in Mathematical Notes (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01140348

zbMATH Keywords

integral functionalsnondegenerate deformationWirtinger's inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inner product spaces and their generalizations, Hilbert spaces (46C99) Existence theories for problems in abstract spaces (49J27) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40)

Review text

For a class of functionals defined on a Hilbert space the following theorem is proved: Let us assume that the functionals \(f_ 0\) and \(f_ 1\) can be connected by means of a nondegenerate deformation. Suppose that \(x=0\) is a point of local minimum of the functional \(f_ 0\). Then \(x=0\) is also a local minimum of the functional \(f_ 1\). The nondegenerate deformation is a continuous functional f(x,\(\lambda)\), \(x\in T=\{x\in H: \| x\|\leq 1\}\), 0\(\leq\lambda \leq 1\), such that \(f_ 0(x)=f(x,0)\), \(f_ 1(x)=f(x,1)\), satisfying some additional regularity conditions. Interesting applications of the above theorem are suggested. These applications pertain to the fundamental classical inequalities and to integral functionals of the calculus of variations. For instance, a stronger version of Wirtinger's inequality is derived.

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