ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
Critical points of asymptotically quadratic functions
Authors 1
Affiliations
- Mathematical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Štefánikova 49, 814 73 Bratislava, Slovakia
Abstract
Existence results for critical points of asymptotically quadratic functions defined on Hilbert spaces are studied by using Morse-Conley index and pseudomonotone mappings. Applications to differential equations are given.
Keywords
critical points, Morse-Conley index, pseudomonotone mappings
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