“…In the previous examples (cf Examples 2.5 and Example 3.6), V is a Banach space injected in H. Recently, in [12], Chill, Hauer and Kennedy extended results of [3], [4] by Arendt and Ter Elst to a nonlinear framework of j-elliptic functions ϕ : V → (−∞, +∞] generating a quasi maximal monotone operator ∂ j ϕ on H, where j : V → H is just a linear operator which is not necessarily injective. This enabled the authors of [12] to show that several coupled parabolicelliptic systems can be realized as a gradient system in a Hilbert space H and to extend the linear variational theory of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator to the nonlinear p-Laplace operator (see also [6,7,16] for further applications and extensions of this theory).…”