Existence results for noncoercive variational problems

SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2064-2076

  Crasta, Graziano ^a   Malusa, Annalisa ^b  

^a Dipto di Matemat Pura ed Applicata   (Italy)

^b Istituto di Costruzioni   (Italy)

Author keywords

Existence theory; Noncoercive problems; Nonconvex problems

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; THEOREM PROVING;

EXISTENCE THEORY; NONCOERCIVE PROBLEMS; NONCONVEX PROBLEMS;

VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0030284774     PISSN: 03630129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0363012994278201     Document Type: Article

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