Multiple solutions for nonlinear discontinuous strongly resonant elliptic problems

Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 17-34

  Kourogenis, Nikolaos C ^a   Papageorgiou, Nikolaos S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coercivity; Critical point; Discontinuous function; Ekeland variational principle; First eigenvalue; Local minimum; Locally Lipschitz functional; Mountain Pass theorem; Nonsmooth C condition; Nonsmooth Palais Smale condition; P Laplacian; Strongly resonant problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035218866     PISSN: 00255645     EISSN: 18811167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2969/jmsj/05310017     Document Type: Article

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