A comparative study of Ky Fan hemicontinuity and Brezis pseudomonotonicity of mappings and existence results (Q2346909)

Let \((X,X^*)\) be a dual pair with \(X\) being a reflexive real Banach space. Let \(K\) be a nonempty subset of \(X\). A map \(A:K \rightarrow X^*\) is called Brezis-pseudomonotone if the function \(u \mapsto (Au,u-v)\) is lower bounded on bounded subsets of \(K\) for all \(v \in K\) and, for any sequence \(\{u_n\}\) weakly convergent to \(u \in K\), one has \(\lim\inf (Au_n,u_n-v) \geq (Au, u-v)\) for all \(v \in K\), whenever \(\lim \sup (Au_n,u_n-u) \leq 0\). On the other hand, a mapping \(A:K \rightarrow X^*\) is called Fan-hemicontinuous if the mapping \(u \mapsto (Au,u-v)\) is weakly lower semi continuous on \(K\) for all \(v \in K\). It is known that, if \(K\) is closed and convex, then a Fan-hemicontinuous mapping is a Brezis-pseudomonotone map. The authors show that, if \(K\) is an open subset of \(X\) then any Brezis-pseudomonotone map is Fan-hemicontinuous. The application to an optimization problem is considered. Editorial remark: Subsequently, the falseness of the main result of the present paper has been pointed out in [\textit{D. Steck}, ibid. 181, No. 1, 318--323 (2019; Zbl 1487.47081); \textit{M. Bogdan}, Math. Slovaca 72, No. 6, 1567--1572 (2022; Zbl 07629491)].