English

Variational inequalities

Optimization and Control 2015-02-18 v1

Abstract

If <α<β<- \infty < \alpha < \beta < \infty and fC3([α,β]×R2,R)f \in C^{3} \left( [ \alpha , \beta ] \times {\bf R}^{2} , {\bf R} \right) is bounded, while yC2([α,β],R)y \in C^{2} \left( [ \alpha , \beta ] , {\bf R} \right) solves the typical one-dimensional problem of the calculus of variations to minimize the function F(y)=αβf(x,y(x),y(x))dx,F \left( y \right) = \int_{ \alpha }^{ \beta }f \left( x, y(x), y'(x) \right) dx, then for any ϕC2([α,β],R){\phi } \in C^{2} \left( [ \alpha , \beta ] , {\bf R} \right) for which ϕ(k)(α)=ϕ(k)(β)=0{\phi }^{(k)}( \alpha ) = {\phi }^{(k)}( \beta ) = 0 for every k{0,1,2}k \in \{ 0, 1, 2 \} , we prove that αβ(2fy2ϕ23fy2y2ϕ3)dx\int_{\alpha }^{\beta } \left( \frac{ {\partial }^{2}f }{ \partial y^{2} } {\phi }^{2} - \frac{ {\partial }^{3}f }{ \partial y^{2} \partial y' } 2 {\phi }^{3} \right) dx αβ(2fyy2ϕϕ+3fyy22ϕ2ϕ+2fy2ϕϕ"+3fyy2ϕϕ2+3fy3ϕϕ2)dx\geq \int_{\alpha }^{\beta } \left( \frac{ {\partial }^{2}f }{ \partial y \partial y' } 2 \phi \phi ' + \frac{ {\partial }^{3}f }{ \partial y {\partial y'}^{2} } 2 {\phi }^{2} \phi ' + \frac{ {\partial }^{2}f }{ {\partial y'}^{2} } \phi \phi " + \frac{ {\partial }^{3}f }{ \partial y {\partial y'}^{2} } \phi ' {\phi }^{2} + \frac{ {\partial }^{3}f }{ {\partial y'}^{3} } \phi {\phi '}^{2} \right) dx, so either the above are variational inequalities of motion or the Lagrangian of motion is not C3C^{3}.

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@article{arxiv.1502.05027,
  title  = {Variational inequalities},
  author = {Nikolaos E. Sofronidis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.05027},
  year   = {2015}
}
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