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Structural stability of flows via evolutionary Gamma-convergence of weak-type

Analysis of PDEs 2015-09-15 v1

Abstract

The initial-value problem associated with multi-valued operators in Banach spaces is here reformulated as a minimization principle, extending results of Brezis-Ekeland, Nayroles and Fitzpatrick. At the focus there is the stability of these problems w.r.t.\ perturbations not only of data but also of operators; this is achieved via De Giorgi's Γ\Gamma-convergence w.r.t.\ a nonlinear topology of weak type. A notion of evolutionary Γ\Gamma-convergence of weak type is also introduced. These results are applied to quasilinear PDEs, including doubly-nonlinear flows.

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@article{arxiv.1509.03819,
  title  = {Structural stability of flows via evolutionary Gamma-convergence of weak-type},
  author = {Augusto Visintin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.03819},
  year   = {2015}
}