Extremal solutions and strong relaxation for nonlinear periodic evolution inclusions (Q4525857)

The authors deal with the nonlinear periodic evolution inclusion \[ \dot x(t)+A(t,x(t))\in ext F(t,x(t)), \quad \text{a.e. on }t\in T=[0,b], \quad x(0)=x(b), \] where \(A:T\times X\to X^{*}\) is a given operator, \(F:T\times H\to P_{cf}(H)\) a multivalued map with nonempty closed and convex values, \(X\) a dense subspace of a Hilbert space \(H,\) \ \(X^{*}\) its dual and \(ext F(t,x(t))\) denote the extreme points of the set \(F(t,x(t)).\) Under appropriate hypotheses on \(A\) and \(F\) and using techniques of multivalued analysis and a surjectivity result for \(L\)-generalized pseudomonotone operators in the framework of an evolution triple of spaces, the authors establish the existence of solutions in the space \(W_{pq}(T)=\{x\in L^{p}(T,X): \dot x\in L^{q}(T,X^{*})\}\) with \(0<p,\) \(q<\infty,\)\( {{ 1\over p+1}\over q} =1\) and \(\dot x\) means the derivative of \(x\) in the sense of vector-valued distributions. A strong relaxation theorem for the convexified problem is also considered by the authors. Two interesting examples are presented illustrating the abstract theory.