From Hahn-Banach to Monotonicity

Download or read book From Hahn-Banach to Monotonicity written by Stephen Simons and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-13 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of LNM 1693 aims to reduce questions on monotone multifunctions to questions on convex functions. However, rather than using a "big convexification" of the graph of the multifunction and the "minimax technique" for proving the existence of linear functionals satisfying certain conditions, the Fitzpatrick function is used. The journey begins with the Hahn-Banach theorem and culminates in a survey of current results on monotone multifunctions on a Banach space.