Two nontrivial critical points for nonsmooth functionals via local linking and applications

Journal of Global Optimization

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 219-244

  Kandilakis, Dimitrios ^a   Kourogenis, Nikolaos C ^b   Papageorgiou, Nikolaos S ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cerami condition; Critical point; Generalized subdifferential; Local linking; Locally Lipschitz function; Nonsmooth critical point theory; p Laplacian; Periodic system; Principal eigenvalue; Problem at resonance

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FUNCTIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; RESONANCE;

CERAMI CONDITION; GENERALIZED SUBDIFFERENTIAL; PERIODIC SYSTEM; PRINCIPAL EIGENVALUE;

THEOREM PROVING;

EID: 33144489594     PISSN: 09255001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10898-005-3884-7     Document Type: Article

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