Abstract

We extend the classical Céa-Falk Lemma to variational inequalities of the second kind defined by strongly monotone operators. As an application we derive an asymptotic error estimate for an obstacle problem with a friction

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Nina Ovcharova

Institute of Mathematics, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Universität der Bundeswehr, Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, 85577 Neubiberg-München, Germany

nina.ovcharova@unibw-muenchen.de

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Suggested citation

N. Ovcharova. “Céa-Falk's Error Estimate for Strongly Monotone Variational Inequalities of the Second Kind.” Journal of Convex Analysis 19 (2012), No. 4, 1141–1151. https://doi.org/10.68381/jca19060

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