Hemivariational inequalities on graphs

Abstract

In this paper, a new class of hemivariational inequalities is introduced. It concerns Laplace operator on locally finite graphs together with multivalued nonmonotone nonlinearities expressed in terms of Clarke’s subdifferential. First of all, we state and prove some results on the subdifferentiability of nonconvex functionals defined on graphs. Thereafter, an elliptic hemivariational inequality on locally finite graphs is considered and the existence and uniqueness of its weak solutions are proved by means of the well-known surjectivity result for pseudomonotone mappings. In the end of this paper, we tackle the problem of hemivariational inequalities of parabolic type on locally finite graphs and we prove the existence of its weak solutions.