A Minimax Method for Finding Multiple Critical Points and Its Applications to Semilinear PDEs

DOI10.1137/S1064827599365641zbMath1002.35004MaRDI QIDQ2780556

Yongxin Li, Jian Xin Zhou

Publication date: 15 April 2002

Published in: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

semilinear elliptic equationsboundary value problemsMorse indexmultiple solutionscomputationmountain pass algorithmsemilinear PDEslocal minimax algorithm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear boundary value problems for linear elliptic equations (35J65) Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20)

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