A general approach to the min-max principle
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instance of: scholarly article
title: A general approach to the min-max principle
zbMATH Open document ID: 0884.58025
DOI: 10.4171/ZAA/770
author: Jean-Noël Corvellec
published in: Zeitschrift für Analysis und ihre Anwendungen
publication date: 1997-08-07T00:00:00Z
review text: This paper represents an interesting and systematic approach to the min-max method in critical point theory. The paper is organized as follows: Section 2 presents the deformation property and the min-max principle, formulated in an equivariant setting. Section 3 deals with critical point theory for non-smooth functions, and Section 4 gives several examples of settings in which the deformation property is verified under the local Palais-Smale condition. A rich and suggestive bibliography for this topic is included.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58E05
zbMATH DE Number: 1045997
zbMATH Keywords: min-max method
zbMATH Keywords: critical point theory
reviewed by: Dorin Andrica
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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