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An existence result for hemivariational inequalities. (English) Zbl 1161.49303

Summary: We present a general method for obtaining solutions for an abstract class of hemivariational inequalities. This result extends many results to the nonsmooth case. Our proof is based on a nonsmooth version of the Mountain Pass Theorem with Palais-Smale or with Cerami compactness condition. We also use the Principle of Symmetric Criticality for locally Lipschitz functions.

MSC:

49J40 Variational inequalities
35J85 Unilateral problems; variational inequalities (elliptic type) (MSC2000)