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Conley in \cite{Con} constructed a complete Lyapunov function for a flow on compact metric space which is constant on orbits in the chain recurrent set and is strictly decreasing on orbits outside the chain recurrent set. This indicates…
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Primal-dual algorithms are frequently used for iteratively solving large-scale convex optimization problems. The analysis of such algorithms is usually done on a case-by-case basis, and the resulting guaranteed rates of convergence can be…
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