Nonlinear boundary value problems for some ordinary and partial differential equations associated with monotone operators (Q810726)

The authors study the existence and continuous dependence on a,b and f of solutions of nonlinear boundary value problems of the type \(p(t)u''+r(t)u'\in Au(t)+f(t),\quad a.e.\text{ on } [0,T],\) \(u'(0)\in \alpha (u(0)-a),\quad u'(T)\in \beta (u(T)-b),\quad a,b\in D(A),\) where A, \(\alpha\), -\(\beta\) are maximal monotone operators. Also, some differentiability assumptions on p and r, imposed in previous works, are eliminated. Some applications to partial differential equations and optimization problems are given. For the proof of the results the authors use some techniques from monotone operator theory and some facts about subdifferentials.