Search results for "Palais-Smale condition"
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A Mountain Pass Theorem for a Suitable Class of Functions
2009
The Existence of Solutions for Local Dirichlet (r(u),s(u))-Problems
2022
In this paper, we consider local Dirichlet problems driven by the (r(u),s(u))-Laplacian operator in the principal part. We prove the existence of nontrivial weak solutions in the case where the variable exponents r,s are real continuous functions and we have dependence on the solution u. The main contributions of this article are obtained in respect of: (i) Carathéodory nonlinearity satisfying standard regularity and polynomial growth assumptions, where in this case, we use geometrical and compactness conditions to establish the existence of the solution to a regularized problem via variational methods and the critical point theory; and (ii) Sobolev nonlinearity, somehow related to the spac…
A min-max principle for non-differentiable functions with a weak compactness condition
2009
A general critical point result established by Ghoussoub is extended to the case of locally Lipschitz continuous functions satisfying a weak Palais-Smale hypothesis, which includes the so-called non-smooth Cerami condition. Some special cases are then pointed out.