Relaxation and Purification for Nonconvex Variational Problems in Dual Banach Spaces: The Minimization Principle in Saturated Measure Spaces

Abstract

We formulate bang-bang, purification, and minimization principles in dual Banach spaces with Gelfand integrals and provide a complete characterization of the saturation property of finite measure spaces. We also present a new application of the relaxation technique to large economies with infinite-dimensional commodity spaces, where the space of agents is modeled as a finite measure space. We propose a "relaxation" of large economies, which is regarded as a reasonable convexification of original economies. Under the saturation hypothesis, the relaxation and purification techniques enable us to prove the existence of Pareto optimal allocations without convexity assumptions.