Some Aspects of Critical Point Theory.

Abstract

This paper contains a slightly expanded version of the series of lectures given by the author at the Third International Symposium on Differential Equations and Differential Geometry held in Changchun, China during parts of August and September of 1982. The lectures describe some of the results obtained using minimax methods in critical point theory during the past several years and give applications of the abstract results to differential equations. In particular existence theorems are obtained for many boundary value problems for semilinear elliptic partial differential equations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA127757

Entities

People

  • Paul Rabinowitz

Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Approximation (Mathematics)
  • Banach Space
  • Differential Equations
  • Eigenvalues
  • Eigenvectors
  • Equations
  • Hypotheses
  • Inequalities
  • Mathematics
  • Mountains
  • Point Theorem
  • Sequences
  • Symmetry
  • Topology
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  • Universities
  • Wisconsin

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  • Mathematics

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  • Asian Economic Studies
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)