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The purpose of this paper is to prove the existence of solutions of the Stampacchia variational inequality for a quasimonotone multivalued operator without any assumption on the existence of inner points. Moreover, the operator is not supposed to be bounded valued. The result strengthens a variety of other results in the literature.
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Aussel, D., Hadjisavvas, N. On Quasimonotone Variational Inequalities. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 121, 445–450 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JOTA.0000037413.45495.00
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JOTA.0000037413.45495.00