Equilibrium problems and noncoercive variational inequalities (Q2767575)

The authors study the following equilibrium problem: \[ \text{find} \overline{u}\in K\;\text{such that} f(\overline{u},v)\geq 0\quad \forall v\in K, \] where \(K\) is a nonempty subset of a topological vector space \(X\) and \(f\) is a real function defined on \(K\times K\). Assuming some monotonicity, continuity, compactness and compatibility conditions, an existence result for such a problem is obtained. Next, the above abstract result is applied to find a solution of some noncoercive, monotone or pseudomonotone variational inequality.