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The Calculus of Variations and Some Semilinear Variational Inequalities of Elliptic and Parabolic Type

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Partial Differential Equations and the Calculus of Variations

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We present here a survey on some techniques of nonsmooth calculus of variations, that we developed in these last years in collaboration with other authors, and some results concerning semilinear variational inequalities that can be deduced by means of such techniques.

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    Ferruccio Colombini , Antonio Marino , Luciano Modica  & Sergio Spagnolo , ,  & 

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Marino, A. (1989). The Calculus of Variations and Some Semilinear Variational Inequalities of Elliptic and Parabolic Type. In: Colombini, F., Marino, A., Modica, L., Spagnolo, S. (eds) Partial Differential Equations and the Calculus of Variations. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, vol 1. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9831-2_12

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