Describing limits of integrable functions as grid functions of nonstandard analysis
Functional Analysis
2021-04-13 v2
Abstract
In functional analysis, there are different notions of limit for a bounded sequence of functions. Besides the pointwise limit, that does not always exist, the behaviour of a bounded sequence of functions can be described in terms of its weak- limit or by introducing a measure-valued notion of limit in the sense of Young measures. Working in Robinson's framework of analysis with infinitesimals, we show that for every bounded sequence of functions there exists a function of a hyperfinite domain (i.e.\ a grid function) that represents both the weak- and the Young measure limits of the sequence. This result has relevant applications to the study of nonlinear PDEs. We discuss the example of an ill-posed forward-backward parabolic equation.
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@article{arxiv.2101.08108,
title = {Describing limits of integrable functions as grid functions of nonstandard analysis},
author = {Emanuele Bottazzi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.08108},
year = {2021}
}