Existence of unbounded critical points for a class of lower semicontinuous functionals

For a general class of lower semicontinuous functionals, we prove existence and multiplicity of critical points, which turn out to be unbounded solutions to the associated Euler equation. We apply a nonsmooth critical point theory developed in [10,12,13] and applied in [8,9,20] to treat the case of continuous functionals.

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