A parametrized version of Ekeland's variational principle is proved, showing that under suitable conditions, the minimum point of the perturbed function can be chosen to depend continuously on a parameter. Applications of this result are given.
One remark to Ekeland's variational principle
โ Scribed by A. Arutyunov; N. Bobylev; S. Korovin
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 285 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0898-1221
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โฆ Synopsis
This article deals with the generalization of Ekeland's first-order necessary conditions of minimum. They are extended to include second-order conditions. The results are applied to variational calculus and mathematical physics.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
## Abstract We extend Ekeland's variational principle to locally complete locally convex spaces. As an application of the extension, we obtain a drop theorem in locally convex spaces which improves the related known result.
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