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In this paper, we study the existence of solutions for mixed equilibrium problems associated with a set-valued operator in the general setting of vector spaces in duality, and in particular in Banach spaces. We use a Galerkin-type method and the notion of pseudomonotonicity in the sense of Brézis for bifunctions. As application, we study the existence of solutions for quasi-hemivariational inequalities governed by a set-valued mapping and perturbed with a nonlinear term. Our main results can be applied to differential inclusions, evolution equations and evolution hemivariational inequalities.
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Sahu, B.K., Chadli, O., Mohapatra, R.N. et al. Existence Results for Mixed Equilibrium Problems Involving Set-Valued Operators with Applications to Quasi-Hemivariational Inequalities. J Optim Theory Appl 184, 810–823 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-019-01629-1
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Keywords
- Set-valued variational inequalities
- Equilibrium problems
- Set-valued mapping
- Pseudomonotonicity
- Hemivariational inequalities