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Ekeland's Variational Principle for Upper Semicontinuous Functions on a Complete Metric Space

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An upper semicontinuous function bounded above on a complete metric space has, near any almost-maximiser, a point that strictly maximises the function minus a small multiple of the distance to that point.

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In the setting of The Real Numbers: Standing Notation and Background, let (X,d)(X,d) be a metric space that is complete, and let F:X→RF:X\to\mathbb{R} be upper semicontinuous on XX and bounded above. Let η\eta and κ\kappa be positive reals, and let x0∈Xx_{0}\in X satisfy

F(x0)≥sup⁡x∈XF(x)−η.F(x_{0})\ge\sup_{x\in X}F(x)-\eta .

Then there is xˉ∈X\bar{x}\in X with the following three properties.

1. (Value) F(xˉ)≥F(x0)F(\bar{x})\ge F(x_{0}).

2. (Distance) d(xˉ,x0)≤κd(\bar{x},x_{0})\le\kappa.

3. (Strict perturbed maximum) F(x)−ηκ d(x,xˉ)<F(xˉ)F(x)-\frac{\eta}{\kappa}\,d(x,\bar{x})<F(\bar{x}) for every x∈Xx\in X with x≠xˉx\ne\bar{x}.

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