Variational Analysis

by R. Tyrrell Rockafellar, Roger J.-B. Wets, Maria Wets (Drawings)

From its origins in the minimization of integral functionals, the notion of variations has evolved greatly in connection with applications in optimization, equilibrium, and control. This book develops a unified framework and provides a detailed exposition of variational geometry and subdifferential calculus in their current forms beyond classical and convex analysis. Also covered are set-convergence, set-valued mappings, epi-convergence, duality, and normal integrands.

748 pages, Hardcover

First published August 22, 2005