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In Chap. 1, we present preliminaries: some basic concepts, and useful famous theorems and results so that the reader may easily find information if need may be.
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Zhang, Z. (2013). Preliminaries. In: Variational, Topological, and Partial Order Methods with Their Applications. Developments in Mathematics, vol 29. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30709-6_1
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