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Remarks on finding critical points
Author(s) -
Brezis Haim,
Nirenberg Louis
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
communications on pure and applied mathematics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.12
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1097-0312
pISSN - 0010-3640
DOI - 10.1002/cpa.3160440808
Subject(s) - nirenberg and matthaei experiment , citation , mathematics , combinatorics , algebra over a field , computer science , library science , pure mathematics
summary:In this paper we examine nonlinear periodic systems driven by the vectorial $p$-Laplacian and with a nondifferentiable, locally Lipschitz nonlinearity. Our approach is based on the nonsmooth critical point theory and uses the subdifferential theory for locally Lipschitz functions. We prove existence and multiplicity results for the “sublinear” problem. For the semilinear problem (i.e. $p = 2$) using a nonsmooth multidimensional version of the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition, we prove an existence theorem for the “superlinear” problem. Our work generalizes some recent results of Tang (PAMS 126(1998))