An existence result for noncoercive nonconvex problems in the calculus of variations

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1527-1533

  Crasta, Graziano ^a,b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Matematica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calculus of variations; Convex analysis; Existence theory; Noncoercive problems; Nonconvex problems

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); FUNCTIONS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS; CARATHEODORYS THEOREM; CONTINUOUS FUNCTION; CONVEX ANALYSIS; CONVEX FUNCTION; EXISTENCE THEORY; LEMMAS; MINIMIZATION PROBLEM; NONCOERCIVE PROBLEMS; NONCONVEX PROBLEMS;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0030151550     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0362-546X(95)00010-S     Document Type: Article

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