Extremal Solutions of Multi-Valued Variational Inequalities in Plane Exterior Domains
Abstract
Let Ω = ℝ2 \ B̅(̅0̅,̅1̅)̅ be the exterior of the closed unit disc in the plane. In this paper we prove existence and enclosure results of multi-valued variational inequalities in Ω of the form: Find 𝓊 ∈ K and η ∈ F(𝓊) such that
⟨− Δ 𝓊, 𝒗 − 𝓊⟩ ≥ ⟨𝒂η , 𝒗 − 𝓊⟩, ∀ 𝒗 ∈ K,
where K is a closed convex subset of the Hilbert space X = D1,20(Ω) which is the completion of C∞c (Ω) with respect to the ||∇·||2,Ω -norm. The lower order multi-valued operator F is generated by an upper semicontinuous multi-valued function 𝒇 : ℝ → 2ℝ \ {Ø}, and the (single-valued) coefficient α : Ω → ℝ+ is supposed to decay like |𝒙|-2-α with α > 0. Unlike in the situation of higher-dimensional exterior domain, that is ℝN with B̅(̅0̅,̅1̅)̅ with N ≥ 3, the borderline case N = 2 considered here requires new tools for its treatment and results in a qualitatively different behaviour of its solutions. We establish a sub-supersolution principle for the above multi-valued variational inequality and prove the existence of extremal solutions. Moreover, we are going to show that classes of generalized variational-hemivariational inequalities turn out to be merely special cases of the above multi-valued variational inequality.
Recommended Citation
S. Carl and V. K. Le, "Extremal Solutions of Multi-Valued Variational Inequalities in Plane Exterior Domains," Journal of Differential Equations, vol. 267, no. 8, pp. 4863 - 4889, Academic Press Inc., Oct 2019.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jde.2019.05.020
Department(s)
Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords and Phrases
Exterior plane domain; Extremal solution; Multivalued mapping; Variational inequality; Variational-hemivariational inequalities
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
0022-0396
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
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© 2019 Academic Press Inc., All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Oct 2019
