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Set coverings and invertibility of Functional Galois Connections

Functional Analysis 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We consider equations of the form Bf=g, where B is a Galois connection between lattices of functions. This includes the case where B is the Legendre-Fenchel transform, or more generally a Moreau conjugacy. We characterise the existence and uniqueness of a solution f in terms of generalised subdifferentials. This extends a theorem of Vorobyev and Zimmermann, relating solutions of max-plus linear equations and set coverings. We give various illustrations.

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@article{arxiv.math/0403441,
  title  = {Set coverings and invertibility of Functional Galois Connections},
  author = {Marianne Akian and Stephane Gaubert and Vassili Kolokoltsov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0403441},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

33 pages, 2 Postscript figures; Acknowledgement added