Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1 Retrospective; 2 Palais-Smale Condition: Definitions and Examples; 3 Obtaining "Almost Critical Points" -- Variational Principle; 4 Obtaining "Almost Critical Points" -- The Deformation Lemma; 5 The Finite Dimensional MPT; 6 The Topological MPT; 7 The Classical MPT; 8 The Multidimensional MPT; 9 The Limiting Case in the MPT; 10 Palais-Smale Condition versus Asymptotic Behavior; 11 Symmetry and the MPT; 12 The Structure of the Critical Set in the MPT; 13 Weighted Palais-Smale Conditions
Summary
This book presents min-max methods through a comprehensive study of the different faces of the celebrated Mountain Pass Theorem (MPT) of Ambrosetti and Rabinowitz. The coverage includes standard topics: the classical and dual MPT; second-order information from PS sequences; symmetry and topological index theory; perturbations from symmetry; convexity and more. But it also covers other topics covered nowhere else in book form: the non-smooth MPT; the geometrically constrained MPT; numerical approaches to the MPT; and even more exotic variants
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-364) and index
