Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1710300 | Applied Mathematics Letters | 2008 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
We present a more general form of the mountain pass lemma. It asserts that a C1C1 functional which satisfies the Palais–Smale condition admits a critical value when the connectedness of certain level sets changes. We also give an improved form of a theorem given in [A. Bahri, H. Berestycki, A perturbation method in critical point theory and applications, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 267 (1) (1981) 1–32], which characterizes the existence of the critical value by means of contractibility properties of the level sets.
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Authors
Lizhou Wang, Dongsheng Li,