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Nonlinear hemivariational inequalities at resonance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Leszek Gasiński
Affiliation:
Jagellonian UniversityInstitute of Computer Scienceul. Nawojki 1130072 CracowPoland e-mail: [email protected]
Nikolaos S. Papageorgiou
Affiliation:
National Technical UniversityDepartment of MathematicsZografou CampusAthens 15780Greece e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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In this paper we consider nonlinear hemivariational inequalities involving the p-Laplacian at resonance. We prove the existence of a nontrivial solution. Our approach is variational based on the critical point theory for nonsmooth, locally Lipschitz functionals due to Chang.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1999

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