A critical point theory for nonsmooth functionals

DOI10.1007/BF01760329zbMath0828.58006MaRDI QIDQ1342841

Marco Marzocchi, Marco Degiovanni

Publication date: 14 January 1996

Published in: Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

multiplicitycritical pointsnonsmooth functionalselliptic variational inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Variational inequalities (global problems) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E35)

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