Existence of Solutions for a Class of Noncoercive Variational–Hemivariational Inequalities Arising in Contact Problems.

The primary objective is to investigate a class of noncoercive variational–hemivariational inequalities on a Banach space. We start with several new existence results for the abstract inequalities in which our approach is based on arguments of recession analysis and the theory of pseudomonotone operators. A nonsmooth elastic contact problem is considered as an illustrative application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]