Mountain passes and saddle points

DOI10.1137/140963510zbMATH Open1341.58012DBLPjournals/siamrev/Bisgard15OpenAlexW1557737441WikidataQ61535170 ScholiaQ61535170MaRDI QIDQ2808251FDOQ2808251

Authors: James Bisgard 

Publication date: 20 May 2016

Published in: SIAM Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1306&context=cotsfac

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zbMATH Keywords

critical point theorysaddle pointminimax methodsmountain pass

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Equations with nonlinear hysteresis operators (47J40) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

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