Prox-Penalization and Splitting Methods for Constrained Variational Problems

Prox-Penalization and Splitting Methods for Constrained Variational Problems

This paper is concerned with the study of a class of prox-penalization methods for solving variational inequalities of the form Ax + NC(x) 3 0 where H is a real Hilbert space, A : H ⇒ H is a maximal monotone operator and NC is the outward normal cone to a closed convex set C ⊂ H. Given Ψ : H → R ∪ {+∞} which acts as a penalization function with respect to the constraint x ∈ C, and a penalizatio...

Iterative Methods for Equilibrium Problems, Variational Inequalities and Fixed Points

A Survey of Direct Methods for Solving Variational Problems

This study presents a comparative survey of direct methods for solving Variational Problems. Thisproblems can be used to solve various differential equations in physics and chemistry like RateEquation for a chemical reaction. There are procedures that any type of a differential equation isconvertible to a variational problem. Therefore finding the solution of a differential equation isequivalen...

Constrained Edge-Splitting Problems

Splitting off two edges su, sv in a graph G means deleting su, sv and adding a new edge uv. Let G = (V + s,E) be k-edge-connected in V (k ≥ 2) and let d(s) be even. Lovász proved that the edges incident to s can be split off in pairs in a such a way that the resulting graph on vertex set V is k-edge-connected. In this paper we investigate the existence of such complete splitting sequences when ...

Manifold Constrained Variational Problems

The integral representation for the relaxation of a class of energy functionals where the admissible fields are constrained to remain on a C m-dimensional manifold M ⊂ R is obtained. If f : Rd×N → [0,∞) is a continuous function satisfying 0 ≤ f(ξ) ≤ C(1 + |ξ|), for C > 0, p ≥ 1, and for all ξ ∈ Rd×N , then F(u,Ω) : = inf {un}  lim inf n→∞ Z Ω f(∇un) dx : un ⇀ u in W , un(x) ∈M a.e. x ∈ Ω, n ∈ ...