Topics in Critical Point Theory

by Kanishka Perera and Martin Schechter

This book introduces the reader to powerful methods of critical point theory and details successful contemporary approaches to many problems, some of which had proved resistant to attack by older methods. Topics covered include Morse theory, critical groups, the minimax principle, various notions of linking, jumping nonlinearities and the Fuč k spectrum in an abstract setting, sandwich pairs and the cohomological index. Applications to semilinear...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110702966X
• ISBN13: 9781107029668
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"