A generalized variational principle

Canadian Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1174-1193

  Loewen, Philip D ^a   Wang, Xianfu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b OKANAGAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asplund space; Dimple point; Generalized Smulyan test; Porosity; Strong minimizer; Variational principle

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035617738     PISSN: 0008414X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4153/CJM-2001-044-8     Document Type: Article

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