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On the palais-smale condition for nondifferentiable functionals

Hong-Kun Xu
- 12 Jan 2000 - 
- Vol. 4, Iss: 4, pp 627-634
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In this article, two kinds of Palais-Smale conditions for nonsmooth functionals are studied, and it is shown that they are equivalent for convex functionals.
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Two kinds of Palais-Smale condition, $(PS)_c$ and $(PS)^*_c$, for nondifferentiable functionals are studied. It is shown that $(PS)_c$ implies $(PS)^*_c$ and that they are equivalent for convex functionals. This points out a gap in the proof of Costa and Goncalves [5, Proposition 3]. Some other nonsmooth versions of known smooth results are also obtained.

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