In this paper we prove that if $X $ is a Banach space, then for every lower semi-continuous bounded below function $f, $ there exists a $left(varphi_1, varphi_2right)$-convex function $g, $ with arbitrarily small norm,  such that $f + g $ attains its strong minimum on $X. $ This result extends some of the  well-known varitional principles as that of Ekeland [On the variational principle,  J. Ma...

this paper is devoted to the spectral theory (more precisely, tothe variational theory of the spectrum) of guided waves in anelastic half cylinder.  we use variational methods to investigateseveral aspects of propagating waves, including localization (seefigure 1), existence criteria and the formulas to find them. weapproach the problem using two complementary methods: thevariational methods fo...

this paper is devoted to the spectral theory (more precisely, tothe variational theory of the spectrum) of guided waves in anelastic half cylinder.  we use variational methods to investigateseveral aspects of propagating waves, including localization (seefigure 1), existence criteria and the formulas to find them. weapproach the problem using two complementary methods: thevariational methods fo...

In this paper we prove a generalized version of the Ekeland variational principle, which is a common generalization of Zhong variational principle and Borwein Preiss Variational principle. Therefore in a particular case, from this variational principle we get a Zhong type variational principle, and a Borwein-Preiss variational principle. As a consequence, we obtain a Caristi type fixed point th...

Variational principle for probabilistic learning Yet another justification More simplification of updates for mean-field family Examples Dirichlet Process Mixture On minimization of divergence measures Energy minimization justifications Variational learning with exponential family Mean parametrization and marginal polytopes Convex dualities The log-partition function and conjugate duality Belie...

In this paper we study a non-homogeneous eigenvalue problem involving variable growth conditions and a sign-changing potential. We prove that any λ > 0 sufficiently small is an eigenvalue of the nonhomogeneous eigenvalue problem { −div(a(|∇u|)∇u) = λV(x)|u|q(x)−2u, in Ω, u = 0, on ∂Ω. The proofs of the main results are based on Ekeland’s variational principle.