On the existence of multiple periodic solutions for equations driven by the p-Laplacian and with a non-smooth potential

Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 229-249

  Gasiński, Leszek ^a   Papageorgiou, Nikolaos S ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Clarke subdifferential; Coercive functional; Local linking; Locally Lipschitz functional; Non smooth critical point theory; Non smooth Palais Smale condition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037300791     PISSN: 00130915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0013091502000159     Document Type: Conference Paper

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