New surjectivity results for perturbed weakly coercive operators of monotone type in reflexive Banach spaces (Q478299): Difference between revisions

The author proves results about surjectivity and variational inequality problems for weakly coercive type operators of the form \(T+S\), where \(T:X\supseteq D(T)\to 2^{X^*}\) is maximal monotone, \(S:X\to 2^{X^*}\) is bounded pseudomonotone or compact and \(X\) is a real reflexive locally uniformly convex Banach space with locally uniformly convex dual space \(X^*\). The operators \(T\) and \(S\) satisfy the inner product condition \[ \langle v^*+w^*,x\rangle\geq -\displaystyle\sum_{i=1}^pa_i\|x\|^i-\alpha (\|x\|)\|x\|^{p+2}\leqno(1) \] for all \(x\in D(T)\) with sufficiently large norm, \(v^*\in Tx\) and \(w^*\in Sx\), where \(\alpha:[0,\infty)\to [0,\infty)\) satisfies \(\lim_{t\to\infty}\alpha(t)=0\), \(p\in\mathbb{N}\) and \(a_i\geq 0\) for \(i=1,\dots,p\). If the operator \(T\) is strongly quasibounded, then the boundedness of \(S\) can be weakened and the condition \((1)\) is replaced by \[ \langle w^*,x\rangle\geq -\displaystyle\sum_{i=1}^pa_i\|x\|^i-\alpha(\|x\|)\|x\|^{p+2} \] for all \(x\in D(T)\) with sufficiently large norm and \(w^*\in Sx\). Variational inequality problems of the form \(\text{VIP}(T+S,K,\phi,f^*)\) are also studied, where \(\phi:X\to (-\infty,+\infty]\) is a proper, convex and lower semicontinuous function, and \(D(S)=K\) is a nonempty, closed and convex subset of \(X\). An example of a time periodic parabolic partial differential equation which models a nonmonotone semipermeability problem is finally addressed.