Lyusternik-Schnirelman theory: complementary principles and the Morse index

DOI10.1016/0362-546X(88)90046-6zbMath0661.58008OpenAlexW2025434803MaRDI QIDQ3810561

Charles V. Coffman

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0362-546x(88)90046-6

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointsMorse indexnonlinear boundary value problemLyusternik-Schnirelman theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B15) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

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