Journal of Inequalities and Applications 
Volume 1 (1997), Issue 2, Pages 139-147
doi:10.1155/S102558349700009X

Embedding variational inequalities and their generalizations into a separation scheme

F. Giannessi

Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa, Via Buonarroti, 2, Pisa 56127, Italy

Received 2 August 1996

Abstract

When the domain of a variational inequality is given as intersection of level sets of functionals, then it is useful to introduce a separation scheme. Starting from this it is possible to carry out, in a uniform way, several topics, as penalization, regularization, gap functions, duality.