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March  2018, 17(2): 413-428. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018023

## The regularity of some vector-valued variational inequalities with gradient constraints

 Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Received  April 2015 Revised  October 2015 Published  March 2018

We prove the optimal regularity for some class of vector-valued variational inequalities with gradient constraints. We also give a new proof for the optimal regularity of some scalar variational inequalities with gradient constraints. In addition, we prove that some class of variational inequalities with gradient constraints are equivalent to an obstacle problem, both in the scalar case and in the vector-valued case.

Citation: Mohammad Safdari. The regularity of some vector-valued variational inequalities with gradient constraints. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2018, 17 (2) : 413-428. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018023
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