A nonsmooth principle of symmetric criticality and variational–hemivariational inequalities

Abstract

In this paper we prove the principle of symmetric criticality for Motreanu–Panagiotopoulos type functionals, i.e., for convex, proper, lower semicontinuous functionals which are perturbed by a locally Lipschitz function. By means of this principle a variational–hemivariational inequality is studied on certain type of unbounded strips.