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I'm working through a book that provides the following exercise which I'm having trouble with. They cite this paper which I can't find (and even if I could, I can't read italian). enter image description here

The problem:

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded open domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and let $E$ and $F$ be closed nonempty subsets of $\Omega$. Let $\phi \in H^1(\Omega)$ and denote by $K$ the convex set: $$K = \{v \in H^1(\Omega)\ : v \geq \phi\text{ on } E \text{ and } v \leq \phi\text{ on } F \}$$ Let $$a(u,v) = \int_{\Omega}\sum_{i=1}^nu_{x_i}v_{x_i}\,dx \quad \forall u,v \in H^1(\Omega)$$ Show that there exists a solution to the variational inequality: $$u \in K: a(u, v - u) \geq 0 \quad \forall v \in K$$

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  • $\begingroup$ The task is, apparently, to minimize $\int_\Omega|\nabla u|^2$ and to show that the minimizer exists, which more or less amounts to showing that $K$ is closed in $H^1$. (BTW, the condition $u\ge\varphi$ on $E$ should be understood with certain care because point evaluation is not continuous in $H^1$ when $n\ge 2$). $\endgroup$
    – fedja
    Commented May 12, 2019 at 15:48

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