INVERSE COEFFICIENT PROBLEMS FOR PARABOLIC HEMIVARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES

This paper is devoted to the class of inverse problems for a nonlinear parabolic hemivariational inequality. The unknown coefficient of the operator depends on the gradient of the solution and belongs to a set of admissible coefficients. It is proved that the convergence of solutions for the corresponding direct problems continuously depends on the coefficient convergence. Based on this result the existence of a quasisolution of the inverse problem is obtained.

A CLASS OF PARABOLIC HEMIVARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES

Quasilinear parabolic hemivariational inequalities as a generalization to nonconvex functions of the parabolic variational inequalities are discussed. This extension is strongly motivated by various problems in mechanics. By use of the notion of the generalized gradient of Clarke and the theory of pseudomonotone operators, it is proved there exists at least one solution.

On Heat Kernel Estimates and Parabolic Harnack Inequality for Jump Processes on Metric Measure Spaces

In this paper, we discuss necessary and sufficient conditions on jumping kernels for a class of jump-type Markov processes on metric measure spaces to have scale-invariant finite range parabolic Harnack inequality.

Differential Evolution Hemivariational Inequalities with Anti-periodic Conditions

The goal of this paper is to deal with a new dynamic system called a differential evolution hemivariational inequality(DEHVI)which couples an abstract parabolic evolution hemivariational inequality and a nonlinear differential equation in a Banach space.First,by apply ing surjectivity result for pseudomonotone multivalued mappins and the properties of Clarke's subgradient,we show the nonempty of the solution set for the parabolic hemivariational inequality.Then,some topological properties of the solution set are established such as boundedness,closedness and convexity.Furthermore,we explore the upper semicontinuity of the solution mapping.Finally,we prove the solution set of the system(DEHVI)is nonempty and the set of all trajectories of(DEHVI)is weakly compact in C(I,X).

A Liouville-Type Theorem for Higher-Order Parabolic Inequalities and Its Applications

In this paper, we establish a Liouville-type theorem for a system of higher-order parabolic inequalities by using the method of test functions and an integral estimate. As an application, we observe the Fujita blow-up phenomena for the corresponding parabolic system, which in particular fills up the gap in the recent result of Pang et. al. （Existence and nonexistence of global solutions for a higher-order semilinear parabolic system, Indiana Univ. Math. J., 55（2006）, 1113-1134）. Moreover, the importance of this observation is that we do not impose any regularity assumption on the initial data.

On Double Degenerate Quasilinear Parabolic Variational Inequalities

We deal with the existence of weak solutions of double degenerate quasilinear parabolic inequalities with a Signorini-Dirichlet-Neumann type mixed boundary condition, which may degenerate in certain subset of the boundary or on a segment in the interior of the domain and in time. The main tools in our study are the maximM monotone property of the derivative operator with zero-initial valued conditions and the theory of pseudomonotone perturbations of maximal monotone mappings.

Convergence of optimal control problems governed by second kind parabolic variational inequalities

We consider a family of optimal control problems where the control variable is given by a boundary condition of Neumann type. This family is governed by parabolic variational inequalities of the second kind. We prove the strong convergence of the optimal control and state systems associated to this family to a similar optimal control problem. This work solves the open problem left by the authors in IFIP TC7 CSMO2011.

A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH FOR OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS GOVERNED BY PARABOLIC VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES

Iterative techniques for solving optimal control systems governed by parabolic varia-tional inequalities are presented. The techniques we use are based on linear finite elements method to approximate the state equations and nonlinear conjugate gradient methods to solve the discrete optimal control problem. Convergence results and numerical experiments are presented.

Symmetric jump processes and their heat kernel estimates

We survey the recent development of the DeGiorgi-Nash-Moser-Aronson type theory for a class of symmetric jump processes(or equivalently,a class of symmetric integro-differential operators).We focus on the sharp two-sided estimates for the transition density functions(or heat kernels) of the processes,a priori Hlder estimate and parabolic Harnack inequalities for their parabolic functions.In contrast to the second order elliptic differential operator case,the methods to establish these properties for symmetric integro-differential operators are mainly probabilistic.

Valuation of American Call Option Considering Uncertain Volatility

The parabolic variational inequality for simulating the valuation of American option is used to analyze a continuous dependence of the solution with respect to the uncertain volatility parameter.Three kinds of the continuity are proved,enabling us to employ the maximum range method for the uncertain parameter,under the condition that the criterion-functional has the corresponding property.