Symmetry in variational principles and applications

We formulate symmetric versions of classical variational principles. Within the framework of nonsmooth critical point theory, we detect Palais–Smale sequences with additional second-order and symmetry information. We discuss applications to partial differential equations, fixed point theory and geometric analysis.

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