A duality theory for non-convex problems in the calculus of variations

DOI10.1007/S00205-018-1219-3zbMATH Open1396.49034arXiv1607.02878OpenAlexW2509703598MaRDI QIDQ724314FDOQ724314

Authors: Guy Bouchitté, Ilaria Fragalà 

Publication date: 25 July 2018

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a new duality theory for non-convex variational problems, under possibly mixed Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. The dual problem reads nicely as a linear programming problem, and our main result states that there is no duality gap. Further, we provide necessary and sufficient optimality conditions, and we show that our duality principle can be reformulated as a min-max result which is quite useful for numerical implementations. As an example, we illustrate the application of our method to a celebrated free boundary problem. The results were announced in cite{BoFr}.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02878

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zbMATH Keywords

variational problemDirichlet boundary conditionsduality theoryFenchel conjugatezero duality gapNeuman boundary conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex programming (90C25) Linear programming (90C05) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Numerical methods involving duality (49M29) Numerical methods for variational inequalities and related problems (65K15) Special problems of linear programming (transportation, multi-index, data envelopment analysis, etc.) (90C08) Duality theory (optimization) (49N15)

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