Maximal monotonicity of dense type, local maximal monotonicity, and monotonicity of the conjugate are all the same for continuous linear operators

Maximal Monotonicity of Dense Type, Local Maximal Monotonicity, and Monotonicity of the Conjugate Are All the Same for Continuous Linear Operators

The concept of a monotone operator — which covers both linear positive semi-definite operators and subdifferentials of convex functions — is fundamental in various branches of mathematics. Over the last few decades, several stronger notions of monotonicity have been introduced: Gossez’s maximal monotonicity of dense type, Fitzpatrick and Phelps’s local maximal monotonicity, and Simons’s monoton...

Stronger Maximal Monotonicity Properties of Linear Operators

Techniques for maximal monotonicity

The purpose of this paper is to describe three techniques that are useful for the investigation of monotone sets and multifunctions, and give two applications of them. The three techniques use the “fg–theorem”, the “big convexification” of a subset of E × E∗ or a multifunction E 7→ 2E (we suppose throughout that E is a nontrivial real Banach space with dual E∗), and the “convex function associa...

Fifty years of maximal monotonicity

Maximal monotone operator theory is about to turn (or just has turned) fifty. I intend to briefly survey the history of the subject. I shall try to explain why maximal monotone operators are both interesting and important—culminating with a description of the remarkable progress made during the past decade.

SSDB spaces and maximal monotonicity

In this paper, we develop some of the theory of SSD spaces and SSDB spaces, and deduce some results on maximally monotone multifunctions on a reflexive Banach space.