We present a family of complexes playing the same rôle, for homogeneous variational problems, that the horizontal parts of the variational bicomplex play for variational problems on a fibred manifold. We show that, modulo certain pullbacks, each of these complexes (apart from the first one) is globally exact. All the complexes may be embedded in bicomplexes, and we show that, again modulo pullb...

It has long been known that variational inequality problems can be reformulated as nonsmooth equations. Recently, locally high-order convergent Newton methods for nonsmooth equations have been well established via the concept of semismoothness. When the constraint set of the variational inequality problem is a rectangle, several locally convergent Newton methods for the reformulated nonsmooth e...

Variational problems have proved of value in many image processing and analysis applications. However increase of sensor resolution as occurred in medical imaging and experimental fluid dynamics demand for adapted solving strategies to handle the huge amount of data. In this paper we address the decomposition of the general class of quadratic variational problems, which includes several importa...

The applicant develops new tools of variational analysis; in particular, two new versions of the Ekeland variational principle and subdifferential variational principle for set-valued mappings, as well as new constructions of extremal set systems. They play a significant role to studying an important class of constrained optimization problems called Multiobjective Optimization Problems with Equ...

We use the technique of updating the solution to suggest and analyze a class of new splitting methods for solving general mixed variational inequalities. It is shown that these modified methods converge for pseudomonotone operators, which is a weaker condition than monotonicity. Our methods differ from the known threestep forward-backward splitting of Glowinski, Le Tallec, and M. A. Noor for so...

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the variational iteration method for solving the two-point boundary value problems. We show that Wang [Shu-Qjang Wang, A variational approach to nonlinear two-point boundary value problems, Comput. Math. Appl. 58 (2009) 2452-2455] demonstrated some incorrect solutions for two-point boundary value problems studied by means of the variational approach....

The derivation of the Monge-Ampère (MA) equation, as it results from a variational principle involving grid displacement, is outlined in two dimensions (2D). This equation, a major element of Monge-Kantorovich (MK) optimization, is discussed both in the context of grid generation and grid adaptation. It is shown that grids which are generated by the MA equation also satisfy equations of an alte...

We introduce a discrete-time fractional calculus of variations on the time scale hZ, h > 0. First and second order necessary optimality conditions are established. Examples illustrating the use of the new Euler-Lagrange and Legendre type conditions are given. They show that solutions to the considered fractional problems become the classical discrete-time solutions when the fractional order of ...

In this paper we survey the relationships between scalar and vector variational inequalities (of differential type) and the underlying optimization problem. We show that the variational inequalities of Stampacchia type can be viewed as necessary optimality conditions, while the variational inequalities of Minty type can be considered as sufficient optimality conditions. Concerning this last sta...