International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2005 (2005), Issue 3, Pages 401-417
doi:10.1155/IJMMS.2005.401

Existence, comparison, and compactness results for quasilinear variational-hemivariational inequalities

S. Carl,1 Vy K. Le,2 and D. Motreanu3

1Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Institut für Analysis, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, Halle 06099, Germany
2Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla 65401, MO, USA
3Département de Mathématiques, Université de Perpignan, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, Perpignan 66860, France

Received 31 May 2004; Revised 9 November 2004

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Abstract

We consider quasilinear elliptic variational-hemivariational inequalities involving the indicator function of some closed convex set and a locally Lipschitz functional. We provide a generalization of the fundamental notion of sub- and supersolutions, on the basis of which we then develop the sub-supersolution method for variational-hemivariational inequalities, including existence, comparison, compactness, and extremality results.