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Fenchel duality, Fitzpatrick functions and the Kirszbraun-Valentine extension theorem

Author(s): Simeon Reich; Stephen Simons
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 133 (2005), 2657-2660.
MSC (2000): Primary 46C05, 47H09; Secondary 46N10
Posted: March 22, 2005
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Abstract: We present a new proof of the classical Kirszbraun-Valentine extension theorem. Our proof is based on the Fenchel duality theorem from convex analysis and an analog for nonexpansive mappings of the Fitzpatrick function from monotone operator theory.


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Additional Information:

Simeon Reich
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 32000 Haifa, Israel
Email: sreich@tx.technion.ac.il

Stephen Simons
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-3080
Email: simons@math.ucsb.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-05-07983-9
PII: S 0002-9939(05)07983-9
Received by editor(s): April 21, 2004
Posted: March 22, 2005
Communicated by: Jonathan M. Borwein
Copyright of article: Copyright 2005, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.


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