A Mountain Pass Lemma and its implications regarding the uniqueness of constrained minimizers

DOI10.1080/02331934.2010.527973zbMath1245.49009OpenAlexW2002753043WikidataQ125061012 ScholiaQ125061012MaRDI QIDQ3112507

Walter F. Mascarenhas

Publication date: 10 January 2012

Published in: Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/02331934.2010.527973

zbMATH Keywords

local minimizersdifferential criteria for uniquenessmetric criteria for uniqueness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods based on nonlinear programming (49M37) Existence theories for problems in abstract spaces (49J27)

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