A generalization of Ekerland's variational principle and application to the study of the relation between the weak P.S. condition and coercivity

DOI10.1016/S0362-546X(96)00180-0zbMath0912.49021OpenAlexW2005212091MaRDI QIDQ4379699

Cheng-Kui Zhong

Publication date: 27 April 1999

Published in: Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0362-546x(96)00180-0

zbMATH Keywords

coercivitylower semicontinuitycompactnesscomplete metric spaceEkeland's variational principleweak Palais-Smale condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Optimality conditions for problems in abstract spaces (49K27)

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