A two-well structure and intrinsic mountain pass points

DOI10.1007/S005260000079MaRDI QIDQ5954655zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kewei Zhang

Publication date 11 November 2002

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S005260000079

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointlower semicontinuityPalais-Smale conditionvariational integral

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

Review text

The existence of unstable solutions for some quasi-convex variational models is established. To this end a version of the Mountain Pass Theorem with the weak Palais-Smale condition is used.

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