Multiple solutions with changing sign energy to a nonlinear elliptic equation

Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 253-265

  El Hamidi, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Ekeland's principle; Lusternik Schnirelman theory; p Laplacian operator; Palais Smale condition

Indexed keywords

EID: 10644285111     PISSN: 15340392     EISSN: 15535258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/cpaa.2004.3.253     Document Type: Article

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