Origin and evolution of the Palais-Smale condition in critical point theory

DOI10.1007/S11784-010-0019-7zbMATH Open1205.58009OpenAlexW2029701500WikidataQ125820422 ScholiaQ125820422MaRDI QIDQ626528FDOQ626528

Authors: Jean Mawhin, Michel Willem 

Publication date: 18 February 2011

Published in: Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11784-010-0019-7

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zbMATH Keywords

critical point theoryPalais-Smale conditionminimax theoremscondition (C)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Variational methods involving nonlinear operators (47J30) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Existence of solutions for minimax problems (49J35) History of global analysis (58-03)

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