solutions for nonlinear variational inequalities with a nonsmooth potential解决方案与非光滑非线性变分不等式的潜力.pdfVIP

SOLUTIONS FOR NONLINEAR VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES WITH A NONSMOOTH POTENTIAL MICHAEL E. FILIPPAKIS AND NIKOLAOS S. PAPAGEORGIOU Received 4 November 2003 First we examine a resonant variational inequality driven by the p -Laplacian and with a nonsmooth potential. We prove the existence of a nontrivial solution. Then we use this existence theorem to obtain nontrivial positive solutions for a class of resonant el- liptic equations involving the p -Laplacian and a nonsmooth potential. Our approach is variational based on the nonsmooth critical point theory for functionals of the form ϕ =