Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106 ; Faculty of Mathematics, University ``Al. I. Cuza' Iasi, Bd. Carol I, Nr. 11, 700506 Iasi, Romania
Abstract:
We provide a new and short proof for Rockafellar's characterization of maximal monotone operators in reflexive Banach spaces based on S. Fitzpatrick's function and a technique used by R. S. Burachik and B. F. Svaiter for proving their result on the representation of a maximal monotone operator by convex functions.