A critical point theorem via the Ekeland variational principle

DOI10.1016/j.na.2011.12.003zbMath1239.58011MaRDI QIDQ412785

Gabriele Bonanno

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.2011.12.003

zbMATH Keywords

local minimum; Palais-Smale condition; variational methods; critical point; multiple critical points; Gâteaux differentiable function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

49J52: Nonsmooth analysis

49J50: Fréchet and Gateaux differentiability in optimization

35J40: Boundary value problems for higher-order elliptic equations

58E30: Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces

58C20: Differentiation theory (Gateaux, Fréchet, etc.) on manifolds

46E05: Lattices of continuous, differentiable or analytic functions

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