Maximal monotonicity and cyclic monotonicity arising in nonsmooth Lur'e dynamical systems

Abstract

We study a precomposition of a maximal monotone operator with linear mappings, which preserves the maximal monotonicity in the setting of reflexive Banach spaces. Instead of using the adjoint of such linear operators, as in the usual precomposition, we consider a more general situation involving operators which satisfy the so-called passivity condition. We also provide similar analysis for the preservation of the maximal cyclic monotonicity. These results are applied to derive existence results for nonsmooth Lur'e dynamical systems.