Doubly nonlinear evolution equations governed by time-dependent subdifferentials in reflexive Banach spaces (Q859496)

The authors prove the existence of solutions of the Cauchy problem for the doubly nonlinear evolution equation \[ \frac{d}{dt}v(t)+\partial_{v}\phi^{t}(u(t))\ni f(t), \;v(t)\in\partial_{H}\psi(u(t)), \;0<t<T, \] where \(\partial_{H}\psi\) (respectively, \(\partial_{v}\phi^{t}\)) denotes the subdifferential operator of a proper lower semicontinuous functional \(\psi\) (respectively, \(\phi^{t}\) explicitly depending on \(t\)) from a Hilbert space \(H\) (respectively, reflexive Banach space \(V\)) into \((-\infty,+\infty]\) and \(f\) is a given function. The proofs are based upon approximation problems in \(H\) and a couple of energy inequalities. The initial boundary value problem of a non-autonomous degenerate elliptic-parabolic problem is treated as an application to partial differential equations.