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We prove a Hölder continuity property of the locally unique solution to a parametric variational inequality without assuming differentiability of the given data.
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Communicated by J. Stoer
This research was supported by the World Laboratory (Lausanne).
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Yen, N.D. Holder continuity of solutions to a parametric variational inequality. Appl Math Optim 31, 245–255 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01215992
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