Abstract

We show an extension of the Lax-Milgram theorem for the context of locally convex spaces. Furthermore we prove that such version of the Lax-Milgram theorem does not admit an analogous generalization for the multilinear case, even though we give a positive partial result.

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Manuel Ruiz Galán

University of Granada, E. U. Arquitectura Tecnica, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, c/ Severo Ochoa s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain

mruizg@ugr.es

Keywords

  • Lax--Milgram theorem
  • variational inequalities

Mathematics Subject Classification

58E30, 49J40

Suggested citation

M. Ruiz Galán. “A Version of the Lax-Milgram Theorem for Locally Convex Spaces.” Journal of Convex Analysis 16 (2009), No. 3&4, 993–1002.

Copyright Heldermann Verlag 2009