Mixed Variational Inequalities and Nonconvex Analysis

Abstract

In this expository paper, we provide an account of fundamental aspects of mixed variational inequalities with major emphasis on the computational properties, various generalizations, dynamical systems, nonexpansive mappings, sensitivity analysis and their applications. Mixed variational inequalities can be viewed as novel extensions and generalizations of variational principles. A wide class of unrelated problems, which arise in various branches of pure and applied sciences are being investigated in the unified framework of mixed variational inequalities. It is well known that variational inequalities are equivalent to the fixed point problems. This equivalent fixed point formulation has played not only a crucial part in studying the qualitative behavior of complicated problems, but also provide us numerical techniques for finding the approximate solution of these problems. Our main focus is to suggest some new iterative methods for solving mixed variational inequalities and related optimization problems using resolvent methods, resolvent equations, splitting methods, auxiliary principle technique, self-adaptive method and dynamical systems coupled with finite difference technique. Convergence analysis of these methods is investigated under suitable conditions. Sensitivity analysis of the mixed variational inequalities is studied using the resolvent equations method. Iterative methods for solving some new classes of mixed variational inequalities are proposed and investigated. Our methods of discussing the results are simple ones as compared with other methods and techniques. Results proved in this paper can be viewed as significant and innovative refinement of the known results.