Nonlinear hemivariational inequalities of second order using the method of upper-lower solutions

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2359-2369

  Kourogenis, Nikolaos C ^a,b   Papageorgiou, Nikolaos S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coercive map; Graph measurability; Lower semicontinuous multifunction; Lower solution; Operator of type S+; Order interval; Penalty map; Pseudomonotone operator; Truncation map; Upper semicontinuous multifunction; Upper solution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041743815     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-03-06993-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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