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Function Variational Principles and Normed Minimizers

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The function variational principle due to El Amrouss [Rev. Col. Mat., 40 (2006), 1–14] may be obtained in a simplified manner. Further applications to existence of minimizers for Gâteaux differentiable bounded from below lsc functions over Hilbert spaces are then provided.

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Turinici, M. (2020). Function Variational Principles and Normed Minimizers. In: Daras, N., Rassias, T. (eds) Computational Mathematics and Variational Analysis. Springer Optimization and Its Applications, vol 159. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44625-3_27

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