Rockafellar

Terry Rockafellar : Integral Functionals, Subgradients nad Duality


In many infinite-dimensional applications of nonlinear analysis, a key role is played by functionals based on an integral expression. This is seen in optimal control and the variational principles behind many partial differential equations, as well as in problems of stochastic optimization where the integral gives an expectation with respect to a probability measure.

These lectures will cover the basic theory of integral functionals on Lebesgue spaces and spaces of continuous functions, with emphasis on subdifferentiation, convexity, and conjugacy under the Legendre-Fenchel transform.