On the relationship between two three-critical-point theorems

DOI10.1016/J.NA.2011.09.052MaRDI QIDQ412654zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francesca Faraci, Sunra J. N. Mosconi

Publication date 4 May 2012

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.2011.09.052

zbMATH Keywords

concave functionscritical pointsminimax inequalitynonlinear analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological and monotonicity methods applied to PDEs (35A16) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

Review text

This paper deals with two recent results by Ricceri concerning the existence of multiple critical points for certain functionals defined on reflexive real Banach spaces. These abstract results are concerned with the following results: (i) existence of a local minimum and (ii) a minimax inequality together with a coercivity assumption that leads the existence of an interval of parameters such that a perturbed functional has a local, non-global minimum in the weak topology. In the paper under review it is argued that in both cases the hypotheses can be stated in terms of some elementary inequalities involving coercive sets of affine functions.

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