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Critical point theorems with relaxed boundary condition and applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Yihong Du
Yihong Du
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Science, University of New England, Armidale NSW 2351, Australia
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Abstract

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This paper is a sequel to a recent paper by the author in this journal. We prove some -variants of the min-max type critical point theorems with relaxed boundary condition and then apply the abstract results to a semilinear elliptic boundary value problem.

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Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , February 1993 , pp. 101 - 118
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1993

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