In this paper, a variational iteration method (VIM), which is a well-known method for solving nonlinear equations, has been employed to solve an inverse parabolic partial differential equation. Inverse problems in partial differential equations can be used to model many real problems in engineering and other physical sciences. The VIM is to construct correction functional using general Lagr...

This paper is concerned with necessary and sufficient conditions for near-optimal singular stochastic controls for systems driven by a nonlinear stochastic differential equations (SDEs in short). The proof of our result is based on Ekeland’s variational principle and some dilecate estimates of the state and adjoint processes. This result is a generalization of Zhou’s stochastic maximum principl...

Variational inference transforms posterior inference into parametric optimization thereby enabling the use of latent variable models where it would otherwise be impractical. However, variational inference can be finicky when different variational parameters control variables that are strongly correlated under the model. Traditional natural gradients that use the variational approximation fail t...

In this paper, we introduce and study a system of mixed variational-like inclusions and a system of proximal operator equations in Banach spaces which contains variational inequalities, variational inclusions, resolvent equations, system of variational inequalities and system of variational inclusions in the literature as special cases. It is established that the system of mixed variational-lik...

1 Scientific Computing Key Laboratory of Shanghai Universities, Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China 2 Department of Mathematics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202 002, India 3 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia 4 Department of Applied Mathematics, National Sun Yat-se...

The functional type extension of Ekeland’s variational principle [7] due to Zhong [18] is logical equivalent with it.

This paper has been devoted to apply the Reconstruction of Variational Iteration Method (RVIM) to handle the systems of integro-differential equations. RVIM has been induced with Laplace transform from the variational iteration method (VIM) which was developed from the Inokuti method. Actually, RVIM overcome to shortcoming of VIM method to determine the Lagrange multiplier. So that, RVIM method...

We study the equilibrium states for an energy functional with a parametric force field on a region of a surface. Consideration of free equilibrium states is based on Lyusternik - Schnirelman's and Skrypnik's variational methods. Consideration of equilibrium states under a constraint of geometrical character is based on an analog of Skrypnik's method, described in [P. Vyridis, {it Bifurcation in...