An introduction to minimax theorems and their applications to differential equations

zbMath0987.58004MaRDI QIDQ5928743

Maria do Rosário Grossinho, Stepan Agop Tersian

Publication date: 3 April 2001

Published in: Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

periodic solutions; critical point theory; Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz mountain pass theorem; Clarke's dual least action principle; differential equations with discontinuous nonlinearities; Hammerstein integral equations; homoclinic solutions; linking theorems; locally Lipschitz functionals; minimax theorems; Rabinowitz saddle point theorems; semilinear Neumann boundary value problems; semilinear Schrödinger equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

49J35: Existence of solutions for minimax problems

58E05: Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces

49K35: Optimality conditions for minimax problems

58-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to global analysis

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