Some remarks on a three critical points theorem (Q1399945)

This paper establishes several applications to nonlinear boundary value problems of the three critical points theorem of Ricceri. First, the author proves several abstract results related to a strict minimax inequality. As applications, there are established multiplicity results for nonlinear elliptic problems, including: (i) a two-point boundary value problem, (ii) a Dirichlet problem for semilinear elliptic equations with discontinuous nonlinearities, and (iii) a nonlinear Neumann boundary problem. The proofs rely on refined arguments in the critical point theory.