Compactness and the Palais-Smale property for critical Kirchhoff equations in closed manifolds (Q901317)

In this article, both the Palais-Smale property and the compactness of solutions for critical Kirchhoff equations is proved. This is achieved by the usage of energy arguments. The author treats the case where absolutely no sign assumption is made upon the solutions. Additionally, he proves the existence of a mountain-pass solution to the equation. Further, its ground-states structure is discussed as well as the uniqueness of this solution in extreme cases.