Existence and Construction of Bipotentials for Graphs of Multivalued Laws
Journal of convex analysis, Tome 15 (2008) no. 1, pp. 87-104
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Based on an extension of Fenchel inequality, bipotentials are non smooth mechanics tools, used to model various non associative multivalued constitutive laws of dissipative materials (friction contact, soils, cyclic plasticity of metals, damage).\par Let $X$, $Y$ be dual locally convex spaces, with duality product $\langle \cdot , \cdot \rangle: X \times Y \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. Given the graph $\displaystyle M \subset X\times Y$ of a multivalued law $\displaystyle T \colon X\rightarrow 2^{Y}$, we state a simple necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a bipotential $b$ for which $M$ is the set of $(x, y)$ such that $b(x, y) = \langle x, y\rangle$.\par If this condition is fulfilled, we use convex lagrangian covers in order to construct such a bipotential, generalizing a theorem due to Rockafellar, which states that a multivalued constitutive law admits a superpotential if and only if its graph is cyclically monotone.