Ground state solutions for some indefinite variational problems

Journal of Functional Analysis

Volumn 257, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3802-3822

  Szulkin, Andrzej ^a   Weth, Tobias ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ground state; Minimax principle; Schr dinger equation; Strongly indefinite functional

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350185404     PISSN: 00221236     EISSN: 10960783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfa.2009.09.013     Document Type: Article

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