%0 Journal Article %T An existence result for hemivariational inequalities %A Zsuzsanna Dalyay %A Csaba Varga %J Electronic Journal of Differential Equations %D 2004 %I Texas State University %X We present a general method for obtaining solutions for an abstract class of hemivariational inequalities. This result extends many results to the nonsmooth case. Our proof is based on a nonsmooth version of the Mountain Pass Theorem with Palais-Smale or with Cerami compactness condition. We also use the Principle of Symmetric Criticality for locally Lipschitz functions. %K Variational methods %K discontinuous nonlinearities %K principle of symmetric criticality. %U http://ejde.math.txstate.edu/Volumes/2004/37/abstr.html