On minimizing noncoercive functionals on weakly vlosed sets
Volume 35 / 1996
Banach Center Publications 35 (1996), 51-72
DOI: 10.4064/-35-1-51-72
Abstract
We consider noncoercive functionals on a reflexive Banach space and establish minimization theorems for such functionals on smooth constraint manifolds. The functionals considered belong to a class which includes semi-coercive, compact-coercive and P-coercive functionals. Some applications to nonlinear partial differential equations are given.
