Ekeland's variational principle and the mountain pass lemma

DOI10.1007/BF02564843zbMath0605.58017WikidataQ124831419 ScholiaQ124831419MaRDI QIDQ3742367

Shuzhong Shi

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Acta Mathematica Sinica (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

critical point; Ekeland's variational principle; mountain-pass lemma; locally Lipschitzian mapping

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

58E05: Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces

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