New surjectivity results for perturbed weakly coercive operators of monotone type in reflexive Banach spaces (Q478299)

The author proves results about surjectivity and variational inequality problems for weakly coercive type operators of the form \(T+S\), where \(T:X\supseteq D(T)\to 2^{X^*}\) is maximal monotone, \(S:X\to 2^{X^*}\) is bounded pseudomonotone or compact and \(X\) is a real reflexive locally uniformly convex Banach space with locally uniformly convex dual space \(X^*\). The operators \(T\) and \(S\) satisfy the inner product condition \[ \langle v^*+w^*,x\rangle\geq -\displaystyle\sum_{i=1}^pa_i\|x\|^i-\alpha (\|x\|)\|x\|^{p+2}\leqno(1) \] for all \(x\in D(T)\) with sufficiently large norm, \(v^*\in Tx\) and \(w^*\in Sx\), where \(\alpha:[0,\infty)\to [0,\infty)\) satisfies \(\lim_{t\to\infty}\alpha(t)=0\), \(p\in\mathbb{N}\) and \(a_i\geq 0\) for \(i=1,\dots,p\). If the operator \(T\) is strongly quasibounded, then the boundedness of \(S\) can be weakened and the condition \((1)\) is replaced by \[ \langle w^*,x\rangle\geq -\displaystyle\sum_{i=1}^pa_i\|x\|^i-\alpha(\|x\|)\|x\|^{p+2} \] for all \(x\in D(T)\) with sufficiently large norm and \(w^*\in Sx\). Variational inequality problems of the form \(\text{VIP}(T+S,K,\phi,f^*)\) are also studied, where \(\phi:X\to (-\infty,+\infty]\) is a proper, convex and lower semicontinuous function, and \(D(S)=K\) is a nonempty, closed and convex subset of \(X\). An example of a time periodic parabolic partial differential equation which models a nonmonotone semipermeability problem is finally addressed.