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Minimax Methods and Their Application to Partial Differential Equations

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Seminar on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

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This research was sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. MCS-8110556. Reproduction in whole or in part is permitted for any purpose of the United States Government.

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Rabinowitz, P.H. (1984). Minimax Methods and Their Application to Partial Differential Equations. In: Chern, S.S. (eds) Seminar on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications, vol 2. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1110-5_16

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