Double phase obstacle problems with multivalued convection and mixed boundary value conditions

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a mixed boundary value problem with a double phase partial differential operator, an obstacle effect and a multivalued reaction convection term. Under very general assumptions, an existence theorem for the mixed boundary value problem under consideration is proved by using a surjectivity theorem for multivalued pseudomonotone operators together with the approximation method of Moreau-Yosida. Then, we introduce a family of the approximating problems without constraints corresponding to the mixed boundary value problem. Denoting by $\mathcal S$ the solution set of the mixed boundary value problem and by $\mathcal S_n$ the solution sets of the approximating problems, we establish the following convergence relation \begin{align*} \emptyset\neq w\text{-}\limsup\limits_{n\to\infty}{\mathcal S}_n=s\text{-}\limsup\limits_{n\to\infty}{\mathcal S}_n\subset \mathcal S, \end{align*} where $w$-$\limsup_{n\to\infty}\mathcal S_n$ and $s$-$\limsup_{n\to\infty}\mathcal S_n$ stand for the weak and the strong Kuratowski upper limit of $\mathcal S_n$, respectively.