The main focus of this paper is to study multi-valued linear monotone operators in the context of locally convex spaces via the use of their Fitzpatrick and Penot functions. Notions such as maximal monotonicity, uniqueness, negativeinfimum, and (dual-)representability are studied and criteria are provided.
Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000)Primary 47A06 · 47H05; Secondary 26B25 · 52A41
PreliminariesMotivated by the facts that, besides the subdifferentials, single-valued linear maximal monotone operators enjoy a set of stronger monotonicity properties and belong to most of the special classes of maximal monotone operators introduced in the non-reflexive Banach space settings (see [1,2]), the linear monotone subspaces of a non-reflexive Banach space made the object of extensive studies in [3,18].