Nonsmooth critical point theory and applications

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 89-99

  Degiovanni, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Critical point theory; Geodesics on nonsmooth sets; Nonsmooth analysis; Subdifferentials

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042547232     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0362-546X(97)00259-9     Document Type: Article

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