Monotone type operators in nonreflexive Banach spaces (Q2264157)

In this paper, the authors first introduce the weak\(^*\) sub-differential of a convex function from \(E^{\ast\ast}\) (\(E^\ast\) is the dual of a real Banach space \(E\) and \(E^{\ast\ast}\) is the dual of \(E^\ast\)) to \(\mathbb{R}\cup \{+ \infty\}\), which is a subset of the classical sub-differential, and a surjectivity result is obtained. Second, the existence of solutions of variational inequality problems for strictly quasi-monotone operators and semi-monotone operators is shown. Finally, a degree theory for mappings of the class \((S+)\) and a generalized degree for the weak\(^*\) sub-differential of a convex function are constructed.