Critical point theorems for indefinite functionals

DOI10.1007/BF01389883zbMath0465.49006MaRDI QIDQ1154662

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/142650

zbMATH Keywords

ordinary differential equations Hamiltonian systems time periodic solutions critical point theorems infinite dimensional Hilbert space indefinite functionals variational principle of a minimax nature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C25) Existence of solutions for minimax problems (49J35) Existence theories for problems in abstract spaces (49J27) Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H99) Hamilton-Jacobi theories (49L99)

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