Existence theorems of multiple critical points and applications

DOI10.1016/J.NA.2005.01.082MaRDI QIDQ556348zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jingxian Sun, Jinli Sun

Publication date 13 June 2005

Published in Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods \& Applications. Series A: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.na.2005.01.082

zbMATH Keywords

(PS) conditioncritical pointelliptic boundary value problemsinvariant sets of descending flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Critical points of functionals in context of PDEs (e.g., energy functionals) (35B38) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Existence theories for free problems in two or more independent variables (49J10) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

Review text

By applying the method of invariant sets of descending flows, the authors discuss the multiplicity of critical points of a functional and obtain a theorem which is called chain of rings theorem. As an application, they utilize this result to lead to the existence of at least seven or nine solutions for nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems.

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