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Main Author: Willem, Michel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA Birkhäuser Boston 1996
Series:Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications 24
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Many boundary value problems are equivalent to Au=O (1) where A : X ---+ Y is a mapping between two Banach spaces. When the problem is variational, there exists a differentiable functional <p : X ---+ lR such that A = <p', i. e. -1' <p(u + tv) - O t The space Y corresponds then to the topological dual X' of X and equation (1) is equivalent to <p'(u) = 0, i. e. (2) (<p'(u), v) = 0, Vv E X. A critical point of <p is a solution u of (2) and the value of <p at u is a critical value of <po How to find critical values? When <p is bounded from below, the infimum c := inf <p x is a natural candidate. Ekeland's variational principle implies the existence of a sequence (un) such that Such a sequence is called a Palais-Smale sequence at level C. The functional <p satisfies the (PS)c condition if any Palais-Smale sequence at level c has a convergent subsequence. If <p is bounded from below and satisfies the (PS)c condition at level c := infx <p, then c is a critical value of <po Following Ambrosetti and Rabinowitz, we consider now the case when 0 and e E X such that lIell > rand inf
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (X, 165 p)
ISBN:9781461241461
9781461286738
DOI:10.1007/978-1-4612-4146-1

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