Abstract

We make a comparison among various existence theorems for monotone and nonmonotone variational inequalities and give necessary conditions for the solvability of the variational inequality problem.

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Antonino Maugeri

Dip. di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Catania, Viale A. Doria 6-I, 95125 Catania, Italy

maugeri@dmi.unict.it

Fabio Raciti

Dip. di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Catania, Viale A. Doria 6-I, 95125 Catania, Italy

fraciti@dmi.unict.it

Keywords

  • Brezis-pseudomonotonicity
  • Karamardian-pseudomonotonicity
  • Fan-hemicontinuity
  • hemicontinuity along line segments
  • coercivity

Mathematics Subject Classification

47H05, 52A41,39B82

Suggested citation

A. Maugeri, F. Raciti. “On Existence Theorems for Monotone and Nonmonotone Variational Inequalities.” Journal of Convex Analysis 16 (2009), No. 3&4, 899–911. https://doi.org/10.68381/jca16055

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Published by Heldermann Verlag, 2009. Rights now held by Banach Press.