We are concerned with surjectivity of perturbations of maximal monotone operators in non-reflexive Banach spaces. While in a reflexive setting, a classical surjectivity result due to Rockafellar gives a necessary and sufficient condition to maximal m
onotonicity, in a non-reflexive space we characterize maximality using a ``enlarged version of the duality mapping, introduced previously by Gossez.
We present a new sufficient condition under which a maximal monotone operator $T:Xtos X^*$ admits a unique maximal monotone extension to the bidual $widetilde T:X^{**} rightrightarrows X^*$. For non-linear operators this condition is equivalent to un
iqueness of the extension. The class of maximal monotone operators which satisfy this new condition includes class of Gossez type D maximal monotone operators, previously defined and studied by J.-P. Gossez, and all maximal monotone operators of this new class satisfies a restricted version of Brondsted-Rockafellar condition. The central tool in our approach is the $mathcal{S}$-function defined and studied by Burachik and Svaiter in 2000 cite{BuSvSet02}(submission date, July 2000). For a generic operator, this function is the supremum of all convex lower semicontinuous functions which are majorized by the duality product in the graph of the operator. We also prove in this work that if the graph of a maximal monotone operator is convex, then this graph is an affine linear subspace.
In a recent paper in Journal of Convex Analysis the authors studied, in non-reflexive Banach spaces, a class of maximal monotone operators, characterized by the existence of a function in Fitzpatricks family of the operator which conjugate is above t
he duality product. This property was used to prove that such operators satisfies a restricted version of Brondsted-Rockafellar property. In this work we will prove that if a single Fitzpatrick function of a maximal monotone operator has a conjugate above the duality product, then all Fitzpatrick function of the operator have a conjugate above the duality product. As a consequence, the family of maximal monotone operators with this property is just the class NI, previously defined and studied by Simons. We will also prove that an auxiliary condition used by the authors to prove the restricted Brondsted-Rockafellar property is equivalent to the assumption of the conjugate of the Fitzpatrick function to majorize the duality product.
In this work we are concerned with maximality of monotone operators representable by certain convex functions in non-reflexive Banach spaces. We also prove that these maximal monotone operators satisfy a Bronsted-Rockafellar type property. We show
that if a function in XxX^* and its conjugate are above the duality product in their respective domains, then this function represents a maximal monotone operator.
