Boundary hemivariational inequalities of hyperbolic type and applications (Q813352)

The author establishes two important existence results for dynamic hemivariational inequalities of hyperbolic type with multidimensional potential laws. The basic tool in the proofs is a surjectivity result involving pseudomonotone operators. The method of proof consists in transforming the problems in evolution inclusions of first order with regular data and then by using a priori estimates to pass to the limit for achieving the conclusions. The author improves previous results by assuming less restrictive hypotheses on the locally Lipschitz functions generating the subdifferential relations. Applications to dynamic viscoelastic contact problems are also presented.