Variational Analysis and Applications

This book discusses a new discipline, variational analysis, which contains the calculus of variations, differential calculus, optimization, and variational inequalities. To such classic branches of mathematics, variational analysis provides a uniform theo

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Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications V O L U M E 79

Managing Editor: Panos Pardalos

University of Florida, U.S.A. Advisory Board." J. R. Birge

University of Michigan, U.S.A. Ding-Zhu Du

University of Minnesota, U.S.A. C. A. Floudas

Princeton University, U.S.A. J. Mockus

Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Lithuania H. D. Sherali

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, U.S.A. G. Stavroulakis

Technical University Braunschweig, Germany H. Tuy

National Centre for Natural Science and Technology, Vietnam

V A R I A T I O N A L A N A L Y S I S AND APPLICATIONS

Edited by FRANCO GIANNESSI University of Pisa, Italy ANTONINO MAUGERI University of Catania, Italy

~1 Springer

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Contents

Preface

xi PART 1

The Work of G. Stampacchia in Variational Inequalities J.-L. Lions

In Memory of Guido Stampacchia

31

M.G. Garroni

The Collaboration between Guido Stampacchia and Jacques-Louis Lions On Variational Inequalities 33 E. Magenes

In Memory of Guido Stampacchia

39

O. G. Mancino

Guido Stampacchia

47

S. Mazzone

Memories of Guido Stampacchia

79

L. Nirenberg

In Memory of Guido Stampacchia C. Sbordone

81

vi

Variational Analysis and Applications

Guido Stampacchia, My Father G. Stampacchia

83

PART 2 Convergence and Stability of a Regularization Method for Maximal Monotone Inclusions and its Applications to Convex Optimization Ya. L Alber, D. Butnariu and G. Kassay Partitionable Mixed Variational Inequalities E. AllevL A. Gnudi, 1. V. Konnov and E.O. Mazurkevich

89 133

Irreducibility of the Transition Semigroup Associated with the Two Phase Stefan Problem V. Barbu and G. Da Prato

147

On Some Boundary Value Problems for Flows with Shear Dependent Viscosity H. Beir6o da Veiga

161

Homogenization of Systems of Partial Differential Equations A. Bensoussan

173

About the Duality Gap in Vector Optimization G. Bigi and M. Pappalardo

195

Separation of Convex Cones and Extremal Probl