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The authors present a general variational principle for perturbative problems in presence of a manifold of ``quasi-critical points'' for the unperturbed energy functional. A model problem is the following \[ \begin{cases} -\Delta u= u^p+ f(\delta,x,u)\quad &\text{in }\Omega,\\ u= 0\quad &\text{on }\partial\Omega,\\ u> 0\quad &\text{in }\Omega,\end{cases} \] where \(\Omega\) is an open bounded set in \(\mathbb{R}^d\), \(d\geq 3\), \(p= {d+2\over d-2}\) is the limiting Sobolev exponent. Here \(f(\delta,x,u)\) is a perturbation term, small if \(\delta\) small, satisfying the growth condition \[ \exists c> 0:| f(\delta,x,u)|\leq c(1+| u|^p). \] For the entire collection see [Zbl 1022.00015].