Viscosity methods for common solutions of equilibrium and variational inequality problems via multi-step iterative algorithms and common fixed points

In this paper, we present a new multi-step iterative method. We prove the strong convergence of the method to a common fixed point of a finite number of nonexpansive mappings that also solves a suitable equilibrium problem.     

Some properties of maximal monotone operators on nonreflexive Banach spaces

Important properties of maximal monotone operators on reflexive Banach spaces remain open questions in the nonreflexive case. The aim of this paper is to investigate some of these questions for the proper subclass of locally maximal monotone operators. (This coincides with the class of maximal monotone operators in reflexive spaces.) Some relationships are established with the maximal monotone operators of dense type, which were introduced by J.-P. Gossez for the same purpose.     

New generalizations of basic theorems in the KKM theory

In the present paper, we obtain a new KKM type theorem for intersectionally closed-valued KKM maps and some useful new basic consequences. Typical examples of them are abstract forms of Fan’s matching theorem, Fan’s geometric lemma, the Fan-Browder fixed point theorem, maximal element theorems, Fan’s minimax inequality, variational inequalities, and others.     

Bifurcation points of Hammerstein equations

We apply global bifurcation theorems to systems of nonlinear integral equations of Hammerstein type involving a scalar parameter. To this end, we give sufficient conditions for the continuous dependence, compactness, Fréchet differentiability, and asymptotic linearity of the corresponding operators, which are more general than in the classical setting. These properties are ensured only after passing to some equivalent operator equation which typically contains fractional powers of the linear part. Finally, we show that the abstract hypotheses on the operators correspond to natural hypotheses on the kernel function and the nonlinearity in the Hammerstein equation under consideration.     

Applications of proximal calculus to fixed point theory on Riemannian manifolds

We prove a general form of a fixed point theorem for mappings from a Riemannian manifold into itself which are obtained as perturbations of a given mapping by means of general operations which in particular include the cases of sum (when a Lie group structure is given on the manifold) and composition. In order to prove our main result we develop a theory of proximal calculus in the setting of Riemannian manifolds.     

Multiplicity results for semilinear resonant elliptic problems with discontinuous nonlinearities

In the present paper, some generalized critical points theorems for locally Lipschitz functions are given; as applications, some multiplicity results for zero-boundary-value elliptic resonant problems are obtained. Two classical important theorems are improved.     

On Stabilized Point Spectra of Multivalued Systems

Let H be an infinite dimensional Hilbert space. Denote by Λ (E, F) the set of all for which the multivalued system 0 ∈ (F − λ E) (x) admits a nonzero solution x ∈ H. One says that Λ (E, F) is the point spectrum of the pair (E, F). It is well known that Λ (E, F) does not behave in a stable manner with respect to perturbations in the argument (E, F). The purpose of this note is to study the outer-semicontinuous hull (or graph-closure) of the mapping Λ.     

Degree for Equivariant Gradient Maps

In this survey article we present result, proved during the recent decade, concerning the degree for equivariant gradient maps. Partially supported by the Ministry of Scientific Research and Information Technology, Poland; under grant number 1 PO3A 009 27. Lecture held in the Seminario Matematico e Fisico on May 10, 2004 Received: June 2005     

Proximal Calculus on Riemannian Manifolds

We introduce a proximal subdifferential and develop a calculus for nonsmooth functions defined on any Riemannian manifold M. We give some applications of this theory, concerning, for instance, a Borwein-Preiss type variational principle on a Riemannian manifold M, as well as differentiability and geometrical properties of the distance function to a closed subset C of M. The first-named author was supported by a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship of the European Community, Human Resources and Mobility Programme under contract number MEIF CT2003-500927. The second-named author was supported by BFM2003-06420.     

Existence and multiplicity results for some elliptic systems with discontinuous nonlinearities

In this paper we complete two tasks. We first extend the critical point theorem obtained by Li and Willem [S.J. Li, M. Willem, Applications of local linking to critical point theory, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 189 (1995), 6-32] to the nonsmooth case in which the energy functional is locally Lipschitz and satisfies the weaker nonsmooth Cerami condition. Then we study some semilinear elliptic systems with discontinuous nonlinearities and obtain some existence and multiplicity results.     

Anti-selfdual Lagrangians II: unbounded non self-adjoint operators and evolution equations

New variational principles based on the concept of anti-selfdual (ASD) Lagrangians were recently introduced in “AIHP-Analyse non linéaire, 2006”. We continue here the program of using such Lagrangians to provide variational formulations and resolutions to various basic equations and evolutions which do not normally fit in the Euler-Lagrange framework. In particular, we consider stationary boundary value problems of the form as well ass dissipative initial value evolutions of the form where is a convex potential on an infinite dimensional space, A is a linear operator and is any scalar. The framework developed in the above mentioned paper reformulates these problems as and respectively, where is an “ASD” vector field derived from a suitable Lagrangian L. In this paper, we extend the domain of application of this approach by establishing existence and regularity results under much less restrictive boundedness conditions on the anti-selfdual Lagrangian L so as to cover equations involving unbounded operators. Our main applications deal with various nonlinear boundary value problems and parabolic initial value equations governed by transport operators with or without a diffusion term. Nassif Ghoussoub research was partially supported by a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The author gratefully acknowledges the hospitality and support of the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques in Montréal where this work was initiated. Leo Tzou’s research was partially supported by a doctoral postgraduate scholarship from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada.     

Harnack inequality and heat kernel estimates on manifolds with curvature unbounded below

Using the coupling by parallel translation, along with Girsanov's theorem, a new version of a dimension-free Harnack inequality is established for diffusion semigroups on Riemannian manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below by , where c>0 is a constant and ρo is the Riemannian distance function to a fixed point o on the manifold. As an application, in the symmetric case, a Li-Yau type heat kernel bound is presented for such semigroups.     

Semilinear elliptic resonant problems at higher eigenvalue with unbounded nonlinear terms

In this paper we study the existence of nontrivial solutions of a class of asymptotically linear elliptic resonant problems at higher eigenvalues with the nonlinear term which may be unbounded by making use of the Morse theory for aC ²-function at both isolated critical point and infinity.     

Equilibrium of abstract economy and generalized quasi-variational inequality in H-spaces

By using a neighborhood approximate method we give a new equilibrium existence theorem for abstract economies in H-spaces, and as applications, the existence problem for solution of generalized quasi-variational inequality in H-spaces is researched.     

Existence of solitary wave solutions for the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation coupled with Born-Infeld theory with critical Sobolev exponent

In this paper, we prove the existence of solutions for the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation coupled with Born-Infeld theory under the electrostatic solitary wave ansatz by using variational methods.     

Hyperbolic mean curvature flow

In this paper we introduce the hyperbolic mean curvature flow and prove that the corresponding system of partial differential equations is strictly hyperbolic, and based on this, we show that this flow admits a unique short-time smooth solution and possesses the nonlinear stability defined on the Euclidean space with dimension larger than 4. We derive nonlinear wave equations satisfied by some geometric quantities related to the hyperbolic mean curvature flow. Moreover, we also discuss the relation between the equations for hyperbolic mean curvature flow and the equations for extremal surfaces in the Minkowski space-time.