On minima of a functional of the gradient: Upper and lower solutions

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1437-1459

  Goncharov, Vladimir V ^a,b   Ornelas, António ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^b MATROSOV INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEM DYNAMICS AND CONTROL THEORY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Baire category theorem; Continuous selection; Nonconvex lagrangian; Relaxation; Scalar variational problem

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BAIRE CATEGORY THEOREM; CONTINUOUS SELECTION; NONCONVEX LAGRANGIAN; RELAXATION; SCALAR VARIATIONAL PROBLEMS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

EID: 31444446527     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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