Global Bifurcation in Variational Inequalities: Applications to Obstacle and Unilateral Problems

This book presents an up-to-date and unified treatment of global bifurcation theory for variational inequalities in reflexive spaces and the use of the theory in a variety of applications. These include obstacle problems from elasticity theory, unilateral problems, torsion problems, equations from fluid mechanics, and quasilinear elliptic partial differential equations. The tools employed are the tools of modern nonlinear analysis.