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The paper presents recent minimax results in the critical point theory of functionals equal to sums of locally Lipschitz and convex, proper, lower semicontinuous terms. The applications involve semilinear elliptic boundary value problems with constraints and nonlinear discontinuities as well as nonsmooth problems in the unilateral mechanics.
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Motreanu, D. (2004). Minimax Theory, Duality and Applications. In: Complementarity, Duality and Symmetry in Nonlinear Mechanics. Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9577-0_12
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