Abstract
In all this section we consider the “quadratic” approximation scheme (2.0.3b), (2.0.4) for 2-curves of maximal slope and we identify the “weak” topology σ with the “strong” one induced by the distance d as in Remark 2.1.1: thus we are assuming that
but we are not imposing any compactness assumptions on the sublevels of φ. Existence, uniqueness and semigroup properties for minimizing movement u ∈ MM(Φ; u0) (and not simply the generalized ones, recall Definition 2.0.6) are well known in the case of lower semicontinuous convex functionals in Hilbert spaces [38]. In this framework the resolvent operator in J τ [·] (3.1.2) is single valued and non expansive, i.e.
this property is a key ingredient, as in the celebrated Crandall-Ligget generation Theorem [58], to prove the uniform convergence of the exponential formula (cf. (2.0.9))
and therefore to define a contraction semigroup on \( \overline {D\left( \varphi \right)} \). Being generated by a convex functional, this semigroup exhibits a nice regularizing effect [37], since u(t) ∈ D(|∂φ|) whenever t > 0 even if the starting vale u0 simply belongs to \( \overline {D\left( \varphi \right)} \).
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- Variational Inequality
- Lower Semicontinuity
- Posteriori Error Estimate
- Discrete Solution
- Resolvent Operator
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(2008). Uniqueness, Generation of Contraction Semigroups, Error Estimates. In: Gradient Flows. Lectures in Mathematics ETH Zürich. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8722-8_6
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