@article {MR2063117, AUTHOR = {Simons, S. and Z{\u{a}}linescu, C.}, TITLE = {A new proof for {R}ockafellar's characterization of maximal monotone operators}, JOURNAL = {Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.}, FJOURNAL = {Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society}, VOLUME = {132}, YEAR = {2004}, NUMBER = {10}, PAGES = {2969--2972 (electronic)}, ISSN = {0002-9939}, CODEN = {PAMYAR}, MRCLASS = {47H05 (26B25)}, MRNUMBER = {MR2063117 (2005f:47121)}, MRREVIEWER = {Elisabetta Allevi}, }