On the differentiability of the minimal and maximal solution maps of elliptic quasi-variational inequalities
On the differentiability of the minimal and maximal solution maps of elliptic quasi-variational inequalities
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jmaa.2021.125732
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发表时间:
2020-09
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
A. Alphonse;M. Hintermüller;C. N. Rautenberg
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作者:
A. Alphonse;M. Hintermüller;C. N. Rautenberg
In this note, we prove that the minimal and maximal solution maps associated to elliptic quasi-variational inequalities of obstacle type are directionally differentiable with respect to the forcing term and for directions that are signed. Along the way, we show that the minimal and maximal solutions can be seen as monotone limits of solutions of certain variational inequalities and that the aforementioned directional derivatives can also be characterised as the monotone limits of sequences of directional derivatives associated to variational inequalities. We conclude the paper with some examples and an application to thermoforming.