Anti-self-dual Lagrangians: Variational resolutions of non-self-adjoint equations and dissipative evolutions

Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (C) Analyse Non Lineaire

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 171-205

  Ghoussoub, Nassif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anti selfdual Lagrangians; Legendre Fenchel duality; Selfdual Lagrangians; Skew symmetry; Variational principles; Variational resolution

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

CONVEX FUNCTIONS; ENERGY FUNCTIONALS; EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

EID: 33947112263     PISSN: 02941449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anihpc.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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