Variational representations for N-cyclically monotone vector fields

DOI10.2140/PJM.2014.269.323zbMATH Open1307.49008arXiv1207.2408OpenAlexW1997761713MaRDI QIDQ482382FDOQ482382

Authors: Nassif Ghoussoub, Alfred Galichon 

Publication date: 30 December 2014

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given a convex bounded domain $Omega$ in ${mathbbR}^d$ and an integer $Ngeq2$, we associate to any jointly $N$-monotone $(N-1)$-tuplet $(u_1,u_2,\mathrm{...},u_{N-1})$ of vector fields from $\mathrm{\%}Omega$ into $mathbb{R}^d$, a Hamiltonian $H$ on ${mathbbR}^{d}imes{mathbbR}^d\mathrm{...}imes{mathbbR}^d$, that is concave in the first variable, jointly convex in the last $(N-1)$ variables such that for almost all $\mathrm{\%}xinOmega$, hbox{$(u_1(x),u_2(x),\mathrm{...},u_{N-1}(x))=abl{a}_{2,\mathrm{...},N}H(x,x,\mathrm{...},x)$. Moreover, $H$ is $N$-sub-antisymmetric, meaning that $sum\mathrm{\%}limit{s}_{i=0}^{N-1}H(sigm{a}^i(mathbfx))leq0$ for all $mathbfx\mathrm{\%}=(x_1,\mathrm{...},x_N)inOmeg{a}^N$, $sigma$ being the cyclic permutation on ${mathbbR}^d$ defined by $sigma(x_1,x_2,\mathrm{...},x_N)=(x_2,x_3,\mathrm{...},x_N,x_1)$. Furthermore, $H$ is $N$% -antisymmetric in a sense to be defined below. This can be seen as an extension of a theorem of E. Krauss, which associates to any monotone operator, a concave-convex antisymmetric saddle function. We also give various variational characterizations of vector fields that are almost everywhere $N$-monotone, showing that they are dual to the class of measure preserving $N$-involutions on $Omega$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.2408

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zbMATH Keywords

antisymmetric saddle functioncyclically monotone vector fieldsmeasure preserving involutionsvariational representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monotone operators and generalizations (47H05) Variational inequalities (49J40) Existence theories in calculus of variations and optimal control (49J99)

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