Approximate minima via the ekeland variational principle¹ (Q4385282)

The author states an equivalent formulation of the Ekeland's variational principle. This formulation enables to obtain error estimates in order to know how much is improved the initial value \(f(u_0)\) of the minimized function \(f:X\to \mathbb{R} \cup \{+\infty\}\). Section 1 contains examples showing various situations depending on the initial point \(u_0\). In section 2 a kind of subdifferential of truncation type for a convex function is introduced. Perturbed minimization problems are studied in section 3. The equivalence between the problem of minimizing some perturbed function and that of minimizing the original function is established.