Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/803703
- Title
- Fitzpatrick functions, cyclic monotonicity and Rockafellar's antiderivative
- Author/Creator
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Bartz, Sedi;
Bauschke, Heinz H.;
Borwein, Jonathan M.;
Reich, Simeon;
Wang, Xianfu
- Description
- Several deeper results on maximal monotone operators have recently found simpler proofs using Fitzpatrick functions. In this paper, we study a sequence of Fitzpatrick functions associated with a monotone operator. The first term of this sequence coincides with the original Fitzpatrick function, and the other terms turn out to be useful for the identification and characterization of cyclic monotonicity properties. It is shown that for any maximal cyclically monotone operator, the pointwise supremum of the sequence of Fitzpatrick functions is closely related to Rockafellar’s antiderivative. Several examples are explicitly computed for the purpose of illustration. In contrast to Rockafellar’s result, a maximal 3-cyclically monotone operator need not be maximal monotone. A simplified proof of Asplund’s observation that the rotation in the Euclidean plane by π/n is n-cyclically monotone but not (n + 1)-cyclically monotone is provided. The Fitzpatrick family of the subdifferential operator of a sublinear and of an indicator function is studied in detail. We conclude with a new proof of Moreau’s result concerning the convexity of the set of proximal mappings.
- Relation
- Nonlinear Analysis Theory Methods and Applications Vol. 66, Issue 5, p. 1198-1223
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.na.2006.01.013
- Date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Pergamon Press
- Keyword(s)
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convex function;
Fenchel conjugate;
Fitzpatrick function;
cyclically monotone operator;
maximal monotone operator;
subdifferential operator;
sublinear function
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/803703
- Identifier
- ISSN:0362-546X
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