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Finding critical points whose polarization is also a critical point

Analysis of PDEs 2013-04-23 v2

Abstract

We show that near any given minimizing sequence of paths for the mountain pass lemma, there exists a critical point whose polarization is also a critical point. This is motivated by the fact that if any polarization of a critical point is also a critical point and the Euler-Lagrange equation is a second-order semi-linear elliptic problem, T. Bartsch, T. Weth and M. Willem (J. Anal. Math., 2005) have proved that the critical point is axially symmetric.

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@article{arxiv.1108.6217,
  title  = {Finding critical points whose polarization is also a critical point},
  author = {Marco Squassina and Jean Van Schaftingen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.6217},
  year   = {2013}
}

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7 pages

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