Metric selfduality and monotone vector fields on manifolds

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2016.02.017zbMATH Open1350.47036arXiv1512.02703OpenAlexW2963270808MaRDI QIDQ738790FDOQ738790

Nassif Ghoussoub, Abbas Moameni

Publication date: 16 August 2016

Published in: Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop a "metrically selfdual" variational calculus for $c$-monotone vector fields between general manifolds $X$ and $Y$, where $c$ is a coupling on $XimesY$. Remarkably, many of the key properties of classical monotone operators known to hold in a linear context, extend to this non-linear setting. This includes an integral representation of $c$-monotone vector fields in terms of $c$-convex selfdual Lagrangians, their characterization as a partial $c$-gradients of antisymmetric Hamiltonians, as well as the property that these vector fields are generically single-valued. We also use a symmetric Monge-Kantorovich transport to associate to any measurable map its closest possible $c$-monotone "rearrangement". We also explore how this metrically selfdual representation can lead to a global variational approach to the problem of inverting $c$-monotone maps, an approach that has proved efficient for resolving non-linear equations and evolutions driven by monotone vector fields in a Hilbertian setting.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02703

zbMATH Keywords

variational principlesoptimal mass transportmonotone maps on manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Monotone operators and generalizations (47H05) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

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