Infinite-dimensional optimization and convexity /

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Author / Creator:Ekeland, I. (Ivar), 1944-
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1983.
Description:viii, 166 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language:English
Series:Chicago lectures in mathematics series
Chicago lectures in mathematics.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/565365
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Varying Form of Title:Infinite dimensional optimization and convexity
Other authors / contributors:Turnbull, Thomas.
ISBN:0226199878
0226199886 (pbk.)
Notes:Bibliography: p. 165-166.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Chapter I. The Caratheodory Approach
  • 1. Optimal Control Problems
  • 2. Hamiltonian Systems
  • Chapter II. Infinite-dimensional Optimization
  • 1. The Variational Principle
  • 2. Strongly Continuous Functions on LP-spaces
  • 3. Smooth Optimization in L2
  • 4. Weak Topologies
  • 5. Existence Theory for the Calculus of Variations
  • Chapter III. Duality Theory
  • 1. Convex Analysis
  • 2. Subdifferentiability
  • 3. Necessary Conditions and Duality Theory
  • 4. Non-convex Duality Theory
  • 5. Applications of Duality to the Calculus of Variations
  • 6. Relaxation
  • Theory Notes
  • References