Sign-changing critical point theory / Wenming Zou.

"Many nonlinear problems in physics, engineering, biology, and social sciences can be reduced to finding critical points of functionals. While minimax and Morse theories provide answers to many situations and problems on the existence of multiple critical points of a functional, they often cann...

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Main Author: Zou, Wenming, 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; London : Springer, 2008.
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Summary:"Many nonlinear problems in physics, engineering, biology, and social sciences can be reduced to finding critical points of functionals. While minimax and Morse theories provide answers to many situations and problems on the existence of multiple critical points of a functional, they often cannot provide much-needed additional properties of these critical points. Sign-changing critical point theory has emerged as a new area of rich research on critical points of a differentiable functional with important applications to nonlinear elliptic PDEs." "This book is intended for advanced graduate students and researchers involved in sign-changing critical point theory, PDEs, global analysis, and nonlinear functional analysis."--Jacket
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 278 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-276) and index.
ISBN:9780387766584
0387766588
9780387766577
038776657X
6611954082
9786611954086
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