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A Generalized Palais-Smale Condition in the Fr\'echet space setting

Differential Geometry 2025-06-03 v4

Abstract

We extend the Palais-Smale condition to Keller's Cc1C_c^1-functionals on Fr\'{e}chet spaces. Using this condition together with Ekeland's variational principle, we obtain some results regarding the existence of minima. In this setting, we prove that the Palais-Smale condition for functionals bounded below implies the coercivity.

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@article{arxiv.1410.5638,
  title  = {A Generalized Palais-Smale Condition in the Fr\'echet space setting},
  author = {Kaveh Eftekharinasab},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.5638},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

In the published version of this paper, we defined the Palais-Smale condition on Frechet manifolds using the concept of the $\beta$-cotangent bundle. However, this definition has since been shown to be invalid. Therefore, in this updated version, we have removed the Palais-Smale definition and all related results concerning Frechet manifolds. we also add some new result to the published version

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