Lectures on the Ekeland variational principle with applications and detours. Lectures delivered at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India under the T.I.F.R.-I.I.Sc. programme in applications of mathematics

Publication date: 17 September 1992

Published in: Lectures on Mathematics and Physics. Mathematics. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

semilinear elliptic equations Palais-Smale condition nonlinear functional analysis Ekeland's variational principle mountain pass lemma Caristi fixed point theorem Bishop-Phelps results Brønsted-Rockafellar result Drop theorem Nemytskij mappings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to calculus of variations and optimal control (49-02) Nonlinear operators and their properties (47Hxx)

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