Multiplicity results to a class of variational-hemivariational inequalities (Q519425)

Let \(\Omega\) be a nonempty bounded open subset of \({\mathbb{R}}^{N}\) of class \(C^{1}\). Let \(q\in L^{\infty}(\Omega)\setminus\{0\}\), \(q\geq 0\). Let \(p\in]1,+\infty[\). Let \(K\) be a closed convex subset of the Sobolev space \(W^{1,p}(\Omega)\). Let \(0\in K\). Let \(\alpha\in L^{1}(\Omega)\setminus\{0\}\), \(\alpha\geq 0\), \(\beta\in L^{1}(\partial\Omega)\), \(\beta\geq 0\). Let \(\lambda\in ]0,+\infty[\), \(\mu\in [0,+\infty[\). Let \(F^{o}\) and \(G^{o}\) denote the Clarke's generalized directional derivatives of the primitives of the essentially bounded real valued functions \(f\) and \(g\) on the real line, respectively. Under suitable assumptions on the data, the authors show that the problem \[ \begin{aligned} & \int_{\Omega}|\nabla u(x)|^{p-2}\nabla u(x)\cdot\nabla (v(x)-u(x))\,dx \\ + & \int_{\Omega}q(x)|u(x)|^{p-2}u(x) (v(x)-u(x))\,dx \\ + & \int_{\Omega}\lambda \alpha(x)F^{o}(u(x);v(x)-u(x))\,dx \\ + &\int_{\partial\Omega}\mu \beta(x)G^{o}(\gamma u(x);\gamma v(x)-\gamma u(x))\,dx\geq 0\quad\forall v\in K\end{aligned} \] has at least three solutions \(u\in K\) by applying an abstract critical point result, which is also proved in the paper. Here \(\gamma \) denotes the trace operator on \(\partial\Omega\).