Anti-self-dual Lagrangians: variational resolutions of non-self-adjoint equations and dissipative evolutions

DOI10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2006.02.002MaRDI QIDQ1002768zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nassif Ghoussoub

Publication date 26 February 2009

Published in Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503571, https://eudml.org/doc/78731

zbMATH Keywords

non-potential boundary value problemsvariational formulationsvariational inequalitiesvariational principles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Initial value problems for linear first-order PDEs (35F10) Nonlinear boundary value problems for linear elliptic equations (35J65) Applications of operator theory in optimization, convex analysis, mathematical programming, economics (47N10) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

Abstract: We develop the concept and the calculus of anti-self dual (ASD) Lagrangians which seems inherent to many questions in mathematical physics, geometry, and differential equations. They are natural extensions of gradients of convex functions --hence of self-adjoint positive operators-- which usually drive dissipative systems, but also rich enough to provide representations for the superposition of such gradients with skew-symmetric operators which normally generate unitary flows. They yield variational formulations and resolutions for large classes of non-potential boundary value problems and initial-value parabolic equations. Solutions are minima of functionals of the form $I(u)=L(u,Lambdau)$ (resp. $I(u)=in{t}_0^{T}L(t,u(t),dotu(t)+Lambd{a}_{t}u(t))dt$) where $L$ is an anti-self dual Lagrangian and where $Lambd{a}_t$ are essentially skew-adjoint operators. However, and just like the self (and antiself) dual equations of quantum field theory (e.g. Yang-Mills) the equations associated to such minima are not derived from the fact they are critical points of the functional $I$, but because they are also zeroes of the Lagrangian $L$ itself.

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