Theory of index-one nonlinear complementarity systems (Q2662480)

The paper is devoted to the initial value problem for a special type of differential-algebraic equations, so-called nonlinear complementarity systems: \[ \begin{aligned} & \dot x(t,p) = f(t,p, x(t,p),u(t,p)), \\ & 0 \le u(t,p) \perp h(t,p, x(t,p),u(t,p)) \ge 0, \\ & x(t_0,p) = f_0(p), \end{aligned} \] where \(x \in \mathbb{R}^{n_x}\) and \(u \in \mathbb{R}^{n_u}\) are the vectors of state variables depending on the time \(t\) (dot over \(x\) means the differentiation by \(t\)) and the parameter \(p \in \mathbb{R}^{n_p}\). For vectors \(u,h \in \mathbb{R}^n\), the notation \(0 \le u \perp h \ge 0\) denotes that \(u \ge 0\), \(h \ge 0\) and the standard dot product \((u,h)=0\). The participating vector-functions are assumed to be \(C^1\)-smooth. Systems of this type appear in mechanics, electrical circuits, process systems engineering, etc. The author studies well-posedness of such problems, the existence, uniqueness, and continuation of their solutions, the strong regularity of solutions, Lipschitzian dependence on parameters, and some other properties. One of the main tools used in the paper is the theory of piecewise continuous differentiable functions and generalized derivatives.