The Brézis-Browder Theorem in a general Banach space

2011/10/26 by Bauschke, Heinz H., Borwein, Jonathan M., Wang, Xianfu +1
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paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1110.5706

Abstract

During the 1970s Brézis and Browder presented a now classical characterization of maximal monotonicity of monotone linear relations in reflexive spaces. In this paper, we extend and refine their result to a general Banach space.

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