Topological degree and application to a parabolic variational inequality problem

Abstract

We are interested in constructing a topological degree for operators of the formF=L+A+S, whereLis a linear densely defined maximal monotone map,Ais a bounded maximal monotone operators, andSis a bounded demicontinuous map of class(S+)with respect to the domain ofL. By means of this topological degree we prove an existence result that will be applied to give a new formulation of a parabolic variational inequality problem.