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Existence and boundedness of solutions to maximal monotone inclusion problem

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In Hilbert spaces, the inclusion problem with an arbitrary maximal monotone operator is considered. We prove that the nonemptiness of the solution set of the inclusion problem is equivalent to a coercivity condition. Moreover, a sufficient and necessary condition for the boundedness of the solution set is obtained.

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This work is partially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11271274, No. 11126336) and Research Fund of Sichuan Provincial Education Department (No. 14ZB0034).

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Zhang, Y., He, Y. & Jiang, Y. Existence and boundedness of solutions to maximal monotone inclusion problem. Optim Lett 11, 1565–1570 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-016-1064-y

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