A corollary of a celebrated theorem of Minty is that the subdifferential graph of a closed convex function on Rn has uniform local dimension n. In contrast, there exist nonconvex closed functions whose subdifferentials have large graphs. We consider how far Minty’s corollary extends to functions that are nonconvex but semi-algebraic. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

In this paper we propose an inexact proximal point method to solve equilibrium problem using proximal distances and the diagonal subdifferential. Under some natural assumptions on the problem and the quasimonotonicity condition on the bifunction, we prove that the sequence generated for the method converges to a solution point of the problem.

We prove the existence of viable solutions for an autonomous second-order functional differential inclusions in the case when the multifunction that define the inclusion is upper semicontinuous compact valued and contained in the subdifferential of a proper lower semicontinuous convex function.

The existence of monotone solutions for a second-order functional differential inclusion is obtained in the case when the multifunction that define the inclusion is upper semicontinuous compact valued and contained in the Fréchet subdifferential of a φ-convex function of order two.

In this paper we study a nonlinear evolution inclusion of subdifferential type in Hilbert spaces. The perturbation term is Hausdorff continuous in the state variable and has closed but not necessarily convex values. Our result is a stochastic generalization of an existence theorem proved by Kravvaritis and Papageorgiou in [6].