Max-Min characterization of the mountain pass energy level for a class of variational problems

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-10-10415-8MaRDI QIDQ4930002zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jacopo Bellazzini, Nicola Visciglia

Publication date 27 September 2010

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0136

zbMATH Keywords

critical point theorynonlinear elliptic equationsmountain pass energy level

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

Abstract: We provide a max-min characterization of the mountain pass energy level for a family of variational problems. As a consequence we deduce the mountain pass structure of solutions to suitable PDEs, whose existence follows from classical minimization argument.

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