Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society

Research Article

A multiple linking minimax principle

Dumitru Motreanua1

a1 Department of Mathematics, University of Iasi, 6600 Iasi, Romania

The aim of this paper is three-fold: to fill the gap between different deformation lemmas, to obtain a unifying minimax result where multiple linking situations can occur, and to locate the critical points as solutions of minimisation problems.

(Received March 15 1995)