Existence theorems of systems of variational inclusion problems with applications

In this paper, we study the existence theorems of systems of variational inclusions problems. As consequences of our results, we study existence theorems of systems of generalized vector quasi-equilibrium problems, mathematical program with systems of variational inclusion constraints, bilevel problem with systems of constraints.     

Systems of generalized quasivariational inclusions problems with applications to variational analysis and optimization problems

In this paper, we study an existence theorem of systems of generalized quasivariational inclusions problem. By this result, we establish the existence theorems of solutions of systems of generalized equations, systems of generalized vector quasiequilibrium problem, collective variational fixed point, systems of generalized quasiloose saddle point, systems of minimax theorem, mathematical program with systems of variational inclusions constraints, mathematical program with systems of equilibrium constraints and systems of bilevel problem and semi-infinite problem with systems of equilibrium problem constraints. This research was supported by the National Science Council of the Republic of China.     

Existence theorems for variational inclusion problems and the set-valued vector Ekeland variational principle in a complete metric space

In this paper, we apply an existence theorem for the variational inclusion problem to study the existence results for the variational intersection problems in Ekeland’s sense and the existence results for some variants of set-valued vector Ekeland variational principles in a complete metric space. Our results contain Ekeland’s variational principle as a special case and our approaches are different to those for any existence theorems for such problems.     

Variational inclusions problems with applications to Ekeland’s variational principle,fixed point and optimization problems

In this paper, we prove the existence theorems of two types of systems of variational inclusions problem. From these existence results, we establish Ekeland’s variational principle on topological vector space, existence theorems of common fixed point, existence theorems for the semi-infinite problems, mathematical programs with fixed points and equilibrium constraints, and vector mathematical programs with variational inclusions constraints.     

Systems of variational inclusion problems and differential inclusion problems with applications

In this paper, we study the existence theorems of systems of variational inclusion problems. From these existence results, we study the existence theorems of systems of variational differential inclusion problems, mathematical program with systems of variational inclusion constraints, and mathematical program with systems of equilibrium constraints.     

Equivalent forms of a generalized KKM theorem and their applications

In this paper, we study various types of variational relation problems. We establish the existence of solutions for these types of problems and point out some important particular cases and their applications. We also show that some existence theorems of solution for these types of problems and some existence theorems of variational inclusion problems are equivalent to a generalized KKM theorem. Applying our results we obtain existence theorems of common fixed point, generalized maximal element theorems, a generalized coincidence theorems and a section theorem.     

New existence criteria of the solutions for a variational relation problem

Many quasivariational inclusions or quasiequilibrium problems, encountered in the literature, are special cases of a variational relation problem proposed in a recent paper by Agarwal et al. (J. Optim. Theory Appl. 2012;155:417–429). The purpose of this paper is to establish new existence results for the solutions of this problem. The main ingredients in the proofs are some continuous selection and fixed point theorems, and an interesting section result. In the last section, we prove that, applied for some concrete relations, our results are different from those obtained by other authors.     

Set-valued equilibrium problems with applications to Browder variational inclusions and to fixed point theory

In this paper, we deal with set-valued equilibrium problems under mild conditions of continuity and convexity on subsets recently introduced in the literature. We obtain that neither semicontinuity nor convexity are needed on the whole domain when solving set-valued and single-valued equilibrium problems. As applications, we derive some existence results for Browder variational inclusions, and we extend the well-known Berge maximum theorem in order to obtain two versions of Kakutani and Schauder fixed point theorems.     

A theorem of variational inclusion problems and various nonlinear mappings

In this paper, we prove a strong convergence theorem for finding a common element of the set of fixed points of a finite family of nonexpansive mappings and the set of solutions of a finite family of variational inclusion problems in Hilbert spaces. Moreover, we utilize our main result to fixed point problems of various nonlinear mappings and the set of solutions of variational inclusion problems.     

Quasi-variational relation problems and generalized Ekeland's variational principle with applications

In this article, we study the existence of solutions for a quasivariational relation problem and then give applications to the existence of solutions for set-valued Ekeland's principle, generalized vector Ekeland's variational principle and generalized equilibrium problems. Our results and techniques of proof are different from any existence result in the literature.     

Stability of solutions for variational relation problems with applications

In this paper, we prove that most of problems in variational relations (in the sense of Baire category) are essential and that, for any problem in variational relations, there exists at least one essential component of its solution set. As applications, we deduce the existence of essential components of the set of Ky Fan’s points based on Ky Fan’s minimax inequality theorem, the existence of essential components of the set of Nash equilibrium points for general n-person non-cooperative games, the existence of essential component of the set of solutions for vector Ky Fan’s minimax inequality, the existence of essential components of the set of KKM points and the existence of essential components of the set of solutions for Ky Fan’s section theorem.     

Systems of equilibrium problems with applications to new variants of Ekeland’s variational principle,fixed point theorems and parametric optimization problems

In this paper, we first establish some existence theorems of systems of generalized vector equilibrium problems. From these results, we obtain new variants of Ekeland’s variational principle in a Hausdorff t.v.s., a minimax theorem and minimization theorems. Some applications to the existence theorem of systems of semi-infinite problem, a variant of flower petal theorem and a generalization of Schauder’s fixed point theorem are also given.     

Equivalence of variational inequality problems to unconstrained minimization

In this paper we propose a class of merit functions for variational inequality problems (VI). Through these merit functions, the variational inequality problem is cast as unconstrained minimization problem. We estimate the growth rate of these merit functions and give conditions under which the stationary points of these functions are the solutions of VI. This work was supported by the state key project “Scientific and Engineering Computing”.     

Existence of nonzero solutions for a class of generalized variational inequalities

The existence of nonzero solutions for a class of generalized variational inequalities is studied by topological degree theory for multi-valued mappings in finite dimensional spaces and reflexive Banach space. One of the mappings concerned here is nonlinear with coercive or monotone and other is set-contractive or upper semi-continuous. Under some suitable assumptions, some existence theorems of nonzero solutions for this generalized variational inequalities are obtained. This work was supported by the Young Talent Foundation of Zhejiang Gongshang University and the Foundation of Department of Education of Zhejiang Province No. 20070628.     

A viscosity of extragradient approximation method for finding equilibrium problems, variational inequalities and fixed point problems for nonexpansive mappings

In this paper, we investigate the problem for finding the set of solutions for equilibrium problems, the set of solutions of the variational inequalities for k-Lipschitz continuous mappings and fixed point problems for nonexpansive mappings in a Hilbert space. We introduce a new viscosity extragradient approximation method which is based on the so-called viscosity approximation method and extragradient method. We show that the sequence converges strongly to a common element of the above three sets under some parameters controlling conditions. Finally, we utilize our results to study some convergence problems for finding the zeros of maximal monotone operators. Our results are generalization and extension of the results of Kumam [P. Kumam, Strong convergence theorems by an extragradient method for solving variational inequalities and equilibrium problems in a Hilbert space, Turk. J. Math. 33 (2009) 85–98], Wangkeeree [R. Wangkeeree, An extragradient approximation method for equilibrium problems and fixed point problems of a countable family of nonexpansive mappings, Fixed Point Theory and Applications, 2008, Article ID 134148, 17 pages, doi:10.1155/2008/134148], Yao et al. [Y. Yao, Y.C. Liou, R. Chen, A general iterative method for an finite family of nonexpansive mappings, Nonlinear Analysis 69 (5–6) (2008) 1644–1654], Qin et al. [X. Qin, M. Shang, Y. Su, A general iterative method for equilibrium problems and fixed point problems in Hilbert spaces, Nonlinear Analysis (69) (2008) 3897–3909], and many others.     

Equilibrium problems and variational inequalities in topological vector spaces

An existence result for the equilibrium problem is proved in a general topological vector space. As applications, existence results are derived for variational inequality problems, vector equilibrium problems and vector variational inequality problems. Our results extend and unify a number of existence theorems in non-compact cases     

Existences theorems of systems of vector quasi-equillibrium problems and mathematical programs with equilibrium constraint

In this paper, we introduce systems of vector quasi-equilibrium problems and prove the existence of their solutions. As applications of our results, we derive the existence theorems for solution of system of vector quasi-saddle point problem, the existences theorems of a solution of system of generalized quasi-minimax inequalities, the mathematical program with equilibrium constraint, semi-infinite and bilevel problems.     

Multiplicity of solutions for nonlinear second order impulsive differential equations with linear derivative dependence via variational methods

This paper uses critical point theory and variational methods to investigate the multiple solutions of boundary value problems for second order impulsive differential equations. The conditions for the existence of multiple solutions are established. An example is constructed to illustrate the proposed result.     

An equilibrium version of set-valued Ekeland variational principle and its applications to set-valued vector equilibrium problems

By using Gerstewitz functions, we establish a new equilibrium version of Ekeland variational principle, which improves the related results by weakening both the lower boundedness and the lower semi-continuity of the ob jective bimaps. Applying the new version of Ekeland principle, we obtain some existence theorems on solutions for set-valued vector equilibrium problems, where the most used assumption on compactness of domains is weakened. In the setting of complete metric spaces(Z,d), we present an existence result of solutions for set-valued vector equilibrium problems, which only requires that the domain XZ is countably compact in any Hausdorff topology weaker than that induced by d. When(Z, d) is a Féchet space(i.e., a complete metrizable locally convex space), our existence result only requires that the domain XZ is weakly compact. Furthermore, in the setting of non-compact domains, we deduce several existence theorems on solutions for set-valued vector equilibrium problems,which extend and improve the related known results.     

Existence and multiplicity of positive solutions for singular quasilinear problems

In this work we combine perturbation arguments and variational methods to study the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions for a class of singular p-Laplacian problems. In the first two theorems we prove the existence of solutions in the sense of distributions. By strengthening the hypotheses, in the third and last result, we establish the existence of two ordered positive weak solutions.