On a general variational framework for existence and uniqueness in differential equations

DOI10.5802/AMBP.405MaRDI QIDQ2127435zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Pablo Pedregal

Publication date 20 April 2022

Published in Annales Mathématiques Blaise Pascal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.06517

zbMATH Keywords

least-squaresODEs and PDEssmooth functionalsvariational methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear differential equations in abstract spaces (34G20) Fixed-point theorems (47H10) Variational methods involving nonlinear operators (47J30)

Abstract: Starting from the classic contraction mapping principle, we establish a general, flexible, variational setting that turns out to be applicable to many situations of existence in Differential Equations. We show its potentiality with some selected examples including initial-value, Cauchy problems for ODEs; non-linear, monotone PDEs; linear and non-linear hyperbolic problems; and steady Navier-Stokes systems.

Review text

The author of this well-written and illuminating paper first rephrases Banach's classical fixed point theorem in Banach spaces as a variational principle and then provides several examples which show, very convincingly, that his variational principle is helpful not only in the study of ordinary differential equations, but also in that of partial differential equations. These examples include Cauchy problems for ODEs, linear hyperbolic problems, nonlinear monotone PDEs, nonlinear wave models, and steady Navier-Stokes systems. \{Reviewer's remark: In connection with the author's variational proof of Banach's fixed point theorem, see also the argument on page 2 of the book by \textit{K. Goebel} and \textit{S. Reich} [Uniform convexity, hyperbolic geometry, and nonexpansive mappings. New York, NY: Marcel Dekker, Inc. (1984; Zbl 0537.46001)].\}

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