Extremal solutions of a class of dynamic boundary hemivariational inequalities (Q701418)

The authors consider a semilinear initial-boundary value problem in a bounded cylindrical domain under flux conditions described by Clarke's generalized gradient of some locally Lipschitz function \(j:\mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}\). The main goal is to prove the existence of extremal solutions within a sector formed by a pair of appropriately defined upper and lower solutions when the function \(j\) is of d.c. type, which means that \(j\) can be represented as the difference of convex functions \(j_k:\mathbb{R} \to\mathbb{R}\), \(k=1,2\). The main tools used in the proofs are truncation, regularization and comparison techniques, a compactness result of the trace operator, existence theory for evolution equations and facts from nonsmooth analysis.