Weak limits of Palais-Smale sequences for a class of critical functionals

DOI10.1007/BF01191297zbMath0812.58018MaRDI QIDQ1315038

Fabrice Bethuel

Publication date: 7 March 1994

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

surfaces of prescribed mean curvaturePalais-Smale sequencesharmonic map functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

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