A weak nonsmooth palais-smale condition and coercivity

Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 521-526

  Kourogenis, Nikolaos C ^a   Papageorgiou, Nikolaos S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Clarke's subdifrential; coercive function; Ekeland variational principle; locally Lipschit function; nonsmooth C condition; nonsmooth Palais Smale condition; Palais Smale condition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33144479866     PISSN: 0009725X     EISSN: 19734409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02904262     Document Type: Article

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