Homotopical stability of isolated critical points of continuous functionals

Set-Valued Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 143-164

  Corvellec, J N ^a   Hantoute, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Nonsmooth critical point theory; Potential well theorem; Stability of isolated critical points

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141680206     PISSN: 09276947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016544301594     Document Type: Article

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