Variational approach to noncoercive systems of elliptic variational inequalities via trapping region†

DOI10.1080/17476933.2011.586697zbMath1237.35078OpenAlexW1997505786MaRDI QIDQ3119092

Siegfried Carl

Publication date: 7 March 2012

Published in: Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/17476933.2011.586697

zbMATH Keywords

comparison principlecritical pointvariational methodtrapping regionelliptic system of variational inequalitiespairs of coupled sub-supersolutionssystem of obstacle problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational inequalities (49J40) Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Critical points of functionals in context of PDEs (e.g., energy functionals) (35B38) Unilateral problems for elliptic systems and systems of variational inequalities with elliptic operators (35J88)

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