A general vectorial Ekeland’s variational principle with a P-distance

In this paper, by using p-distances on uniform spaces, we establish a general vectorial Ekeland variational principle （in short EVP）, where the objective function is defined on a uniform space and taking values in a pre-ordered real linear space and the perturbation involves a p-distance and a monotone function of the objective function. Since p-distances are very extensive, such a form of the perturbation in deed contains many different forms of perturbations appeared in the previous versions of EVP. Besides, we only require the objective function has a very weak property, as a substitute for lower semi-continuity, and only require the domain space （which is a uniform space） has a very weak type of completeness, i.e., completeness with respect to a certain p-distance. Such very weak type of completeness even includes local completeness when the uniform space is a locally convex topological vector space. From the general vectorial EVP, we deduce a general vectorial Caristi＇s fixed point theorem and a general vectorial Takahashi＇s nonconvex minimization theorem. Moreover, we show that the above three theorems are equivalent to each other. We see that the above general vectorial EVP includes many particular versions of EVP, which extend and complement the related known results.     

P-distances, q-distances and a generalized Ekeland’s variational principle in uniform spaces

In this paper, we attempt to give a unified approach to the existing several versions of Ekeland’s variational principle. In the framework of uniform spaces, we introduce p-distances and more generally, q-distances. Then we introduce a new type of completeness for uniform spaces, i.e., sequential completeness with respect to a q-distance (particularly, a p-distance), which is a very extensive concept of completeness. By using q-distances and the new type of completeness, we prove a generalized Takahashi’s nonconvex minimization theorem, a generalized Ekeland’s variational principle and a generalized Caristi’s fixed point theorem. Moreover, we show that the above three theorems are equivalent to each other. From the generalized Ekeland’s variational principle, we deduce a number of particular versions of Ekeland’s principle, which include many known versions of the principle and their improvements.     

A drop theorem without vector topology

Daneš' drop theorem is extended to bornological vector spaces. An immediate application is to establish Ekeland-type variational principle and its equivalence, Caristi fixed point theorem, in bornological vector spaces. Meanwhile, since every locally convex space becomes a convex bornological vector space when equipped with the canonical von Neumann bornology, Qiu's generalization of Daneš' work to locally convex spaces is recovered.     

Fixed Point Theorems for Monotone Caristi Inward Mappings

In this paper, we introduce the monotone Caristi inward mappings. As an example, we show that monotone inward contraction mappings are monotone Caristi inward mappings. A general fixed point theorem for such mappings is given. A mutlivalued version of these results is also introduced.     

On the Additivity of the Minkowski Functionals

In this work, we investigate the additivity of the Minkowski functionals associated to a cone in a linear vector space. As an application we discuss the equivalence of the classical Caristi fixed point theorem in metric spaces and its vectorial version in cone metric spaces.     

有界线性空间中含有Q-距离的Ekeland变分原理

有界线性空间中引入了Q-距离的概念,建立了一类向量值Ekeland变分原理,其目标函数是从有界线性空间映到锥序的实线性空间,并且扰动项中含有Q-距离．由此可以得到有界线性空间中现有的一些Ekeland变分原理．同时建立了有界线性空间中的向量值Caristi不动点定理,也给出二者的等价性．