Abstract
We prove a local saddle point theorem that can be viewed as a generalization of the saddle point theorem of Rabinowitz. A difficulty to overcome is that there isn’t any linking. We then apply the theorem to show the existence of solutions of a nonlocal partial differential equations.
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My thanks to the anonymous referee for their work.
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Communicated by P. Rabinowitz.
