Many models involve the Coulomb’s law in order to describe dynamical properties of friction phenomena. In order to generalize this Coulomb’s law and to deal with its correct mathematical expression, we study a nonlinear equation where we take into account a maximal monotone graph. In the particular case of Coulomb’s law, existence and uniqueness are proved. But in the general case, only existen...

The 17th of the problems proposed by Steve Smale for the 21st century asks for the existence of a deterministic algorithm computing an approximate solution of a system of n complex polynomials in n unknowns in time polynomial, on the average, in the size N of the input system. A partial solution to this problem was given by Carlos Beltrán and Luis Miguel Pardo who exhibited a randomized algorit...