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A Linear Perturbation Producing a Sequentially Strict Maximum under a Coercive Bound

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Reason: Under a coercive upper bound, a linear perturbation of arbitrarily small norm produces a sequentially strict maximum; this makes precise the standard optimisation technique invoked without proof in Ishii's comparison argument. · 817 chars · 1 dep · depth 19

If a function with closed superlevel sets on a subset of a real Hilbert space is dominated by a constant minus a positive multiple of the squared norm, then subtracting a linear functional of arbitrarily small norm makes it attain a sequentially strict maximum.

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In the setting of Real Hilbert Spaces: Standing Notation and Background, let HH be a real Hilbert space with inner product ,\langle\cdot,\cdot\rangle and norm |\cdot|, let AA be a nonempty subset of HH, and let Φ:AR\Phi:A\to\mathbb{R} have closed superlevel sets in HH. Suppose there are CRC\in\mathbb{R} and a positive κR\kappa\in\mathbb{R} such that

Φ(x)Cκx2for every xA.\Phi(x)\le C-\kappa\,|x|^{2}\qquad\text{for every }x\in A.

Then for every positive γR\gamma\in\mathbb{R} there exist pHp\in H with pγ|p|\le\gamma and xˉA\bar{x}\in A such that the function ARA\to\mathbb{R} whose value at xAx\in A is

Φ(x)p,x\Phi(x)-\langle p,x\rangle

attains a sequentially strict maximum on AA at xˉ\bar{x}.

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