Existence of three nontrivial solutions for nonlinear Neumann hemivariational inequalities

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3285-3297

  Iannizzotto, Antonio ^a   Papageorgiou, Nikolaos S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Generalized subdifferentials; Local minimizers; Locally Lipschitz potentials; Minimax methods; p Laplacian; Second deformation theorem; Solutions of constant sign; Truncations

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EQUATIONS OF STATE; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS;

GENERALIZED SUBDIFFERENTIALS; LOCAL MINIMIZERS; LOCALLY LIPSCHITZ POTENTIALS; MINIMAX METHODS; P-LAPLACIAN; SECOND DEFORMATION THEOREM; TRUNCATIONS;

LAPLACE EQUATION;

EID: 61349120782     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2008.04.033     Document Type: Article

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