Variational and quasivariational inequalities with first order constraint

• Author(s): Azevedo, Assis ; Miranda, Fernando ; Santos, Lisa
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/20392
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Variational inequality; Quasivariational inequality; Lagrange multiplier
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

We study the existence of solutions of stationary variational and quasivariational inequalities with curl constraint, Neumann type boundary condition and a p-curl type operator. These problems are studied in bounded, not necessarily simply connected domains, with a special geometry, and the functional framework is the space of divergence-free functions with curl in $\boldsymbol L^p$ and null tangential or normal traces. The analogous variational or quasivariational inequalities with a gradient constraint are also studied, considering Neumann or Dirichlet non-homogeneous boundary conditions. The existence of a generalized solution for a Lagrange multiplier problem with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition and the equivalence with the variational inequality is proved in the linear case, for an arbitrary gradient constraint.