Generalized well-posedness results for a class of hemivariational inequalities

Abstract

We consider a hemivariational inequality of elliptic type (HVI, for short) in a reflexive Banach space, prove its solvability and the compactness of its set of solutions. To this end we employ a surjectivity theorem for multivalued mappings that we use for the sum of a maximal monotone operator and a bounded pseudomonotone operator. Next, we introduce the concepts of strongly and weakly well-posedness in the generalized sense for the HVI and provide two characterizations for the strongly well-posedness, under different assumptions on the data. These characterizations are formulated in terms of the metric properties of the approximating sets. We also provide sufficient conditions which guarantee the weakly and strongly well-posedness in the generalized sense of the HVI. Finally, we consider two perturbations of the HVI for which we obtain convergence results in the sense of Kuratowski.