The Palais-Smale condition on contact type energy levels for convex Lagrangian systems

DOI10.1007/s00526-005-0368-zzbMath1105.37037arXivmath/0304238OpenAlexW2004732638MaRDI QIDQ2509087

Gonzalo Contreras

Publication date: 16 October 2006

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0304238

zbMATH Keywords

periodic orbitsmountain pass geometryMañé's critical valuecontact-type energy levelconvex and superlinear Lagrangian systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10) Contact systems (37J55)

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