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The present paper is concerned with Ekeland Variational Principle (EkVP) and its equivalents (Caristi-Kirk fixed point theorem, Takahashi minimization principle, Oettli-Th\'era equilibrium version of EkVP) in quasi-uniform spaces. These…
In the setting of real vector spaces, we establish a general set-valued Ekeland variational principle (briefly, denoted by EVP), where the objective function is a set-valued map taking values in a real vector space quasi-ordered by a convex…
We prove versions of Ekeland, Takahashi and Caristi principles in sequentially right $K$-complete quasi-pseudometric spaces (meaning asymmetric pseudometric spaces), the equivalence between these principles, as well as their equivalence to…
For proper lower semi-continuous functionals bounded below which do not increase upon polarization, an improved version of Ekeland's variational principle can be formulated in Banach spaces, which provides almost symmetric points.
Motivated by the recent work on conditional risk measures, this paper studies the Ekeland's variational principle for a proper, lower semicontinuous and lower bounded $\bar{L}^{0}-$valued function, where $\bar{L}^{0}$ is the set of…
In this note, we remark, with sufficient mathematical rigor, that many weak generalizations of the usual minimum available in the literature are not true generalizations. Motivated by the Ekeland Variational Principle, we provide, first…
We analyze Ekeland's variational principle in the context of reverse mathematics. We find that that the full variational principle is equivalent to $\Pi^1_1$-${\sf CA}_0$, a strong theory of second-order arithmetic, while natural…
We prove versions of Ekeland, Takahashi and Caristi principles in preordered quasi-metric spaces, the equivalence between these principles, as well as their equivalence to some completeness results for the underlying quasi-metric space.…
In this paper, we establish a partial order principle, which is useful to deriving vector Ekeland variational principle (denoted by EVP). By using the partial order principle and extending Gerstewitz's functions, we obtain a vector EVP for…
In this paper, we attempt to propose Ekeland's variational principle for interval-valued functions (IVFs). To develop the variational principle, we study the concept of sequence of intervals. In the sequel, the idea of gH-semicontinuity for…
The Ekeland variational principle implies what can be regarded as a strong version, in the $C^1$ category, of the Yau minimum principle: under the appropriate hypotheses {\it every} minimizing sequence admits a {\it good shadow}, a second…
In this paper we prove that if $X $ is a Banach space, then for every lower semi-continuous bounded below function $f, $ there exists a $\left(\varphi_1, \varphi_2\right)-$convex function $g, $ with arbitrarily small norm, such that $f + g…
We establish a pre-order principle. From the principle, we obtain a very general set-valued Ekeland variational principle, where the objective function is a set-valued map taking values in a quasi ordered linear space and the perturbation…
In my former paper "A pre-order principle and set-valued Ekeland variational principle" (see: arXiv: 1311.4951[math.FA]), we established a general pre-order principle. From the pre-order principle, we deduced most of the known set-valued…
Bekenstein has shown that violation of Weak Equivalence Principle is strongly supressed in his model of charge variation. In this paper, it is shown that nuclear magnetic energy is large enough to produce observable effects in Eotvos…
We propose, as an alternative theory of quantum mechanics, a relativistically covariant variational principle (VP) capable of describing both wavefunction collapse and, as an appropriate limiting case, evolution of the wavefunction…
We consider Borwein-Preiss and Ekeland variational principles using distance functions that neither is symmetric nor enjoy the triangular inequality. All the given results rely exclusively on the convergence and continuity behaviors induced…
In this paper, we present some implicit function theorems for set-valued mappings between Fr\'echet spaces. The proof relies on Lebesgue's Dominated Convergence Theorem and on Ekeland's variational principle. An application to the existence…
The purpose of this article is to obtain a better understanding of the extended variational principle (EVP). The EVP is a formula for the thermodynamic pressure of a statistical mechanical system as a limit of a sequence of minimization…
The main aim of this note is to point out by means of counter-examples that some arguments of the proofs of two theorems about a "half variational principle" for multivalued maps, formulated recently by Vivas and Sirvent [Metric entropy for…