The mountain pass alternative

DOI10.1016/0196-8858(91)90007-6MaRDI QIDQ1814143zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Schechter

Publication date 25 June 1992

Published in Advances in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0196-8858(91)90007-6

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointsmountain pass lemmaPalais-Smale conditionvariational problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Programming in abstract spaces (90C48)

Review text

The paper develops variational methods allowing to find the critical points of a continuously differentiable functional on a real Banach space. A modification of the mountain pass lemma concerning sequences that tend to the studied critical points is given. Two characteristic properties (``the alternatives) based upon the above-mentioned lemma are used to prove the solvability of the gradient equations. As an application, the nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems are considered.

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