In this paper, we prove the existence of at least two nontrivial solutions for a nonlinear elliptic problem involving p(x)-Laplacian-like operator and nonsmooth potentials. Our approach is variational and it is based on the nonsmooth critical point theory for locally Lipschitz functions.

In this paper, we first study a nonsmooth steepest descent method for nonsmooth functions defined on a Hilbert space and establish the corresponding algorithm by proximal subgradients. Then, we use this algorithm to find stationary points for those functions satisfying prox-regularity and Lipschitz continuity. As an application, the established algorithm is used to search for the minimizer of a...

-In this paper, we investigate some properties of Michel Penot subdifferentials of locally Lipschitz functions and establish Lagrange multiplier rule in terms of Michel-Penot subdifferentials for nonsmooth mathematical programming problem. Key-Words: Nonsmooth optimization; approximate subdifferentials; generalized gradient; Michel Penot subdifferential; Banach space.

The notion of a secant for locally Lipschitz continuous functions is introduced and a new algorithm to locally minimize nonsmooth, nonconvex functions based on secants is developed. We demonstrate that the secants can be used to design an algorithm to find descent directions of locally Lipschitz continuous functions. This algorithm is applied to design a minimization method, called a secant met...

This paper studies the system stability problems of a class of nonconvex differential inclusions. At first, a basic stability result is obtained by virtue of locally Lipschitz continuous Lyapunov functions. Moreover, a generalized invariance principle and related attraction conditions are proposed and proved to overcome the technical difficulties due to the absence of convexity. In the technica...

In this paper, we consider nonsmooth multiobjective fractional programming problems involving locally Lipschitz functions. We introduce the property of generalized invexity for fractional function. We present necessary optimality conditions, sufficient optimality conditions and duality relations for nonsmooth multiobjective fractional programming problems, which is for a weakly efficient soluti...