A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Palais--Smale Conditions

DOI10.1137/S0036141098338016zbMath0942.35081MaRDI QIDQ4943676

Kuan-Ju Chen, Hwai-Chiuan Wang

Publication date: 19 March 2000

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Palais-Smale condition; minimization problem; existence result; solvable domain; subcritical elliptic problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35J25: Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations

35J65: Nonlinear boundary value problems for linear elliptic equations

35A15: Variational methods applied to PDEs

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