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Concentration-compactness principle for mountain pass problems

Analysis of PDEs 2007-05-23 v1 Functional Analysis

Abstract

In the paper we show that critical sequences associated with the mountain pass level for semilinear elliptic problems on RN\R^N converge when the non-linearity is subcritical, superlinear and satisfies the penalty condition F(s)<F(x,s)F_\infty(s)<F(x,s). The proof suggests a concentration compactness framework for minimax problems, similar to that of P.-L.Lions for constrained minima.

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@article{arxiv.math/0505454,
  title  = {Concentration-compactness principle for mountain pass problems},
  author = {Kyril Tintarev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0505454},
  year   = {2007}
}