Abstract
In this note some well-known existence and multiplicity results of nontrivial solutions for scalar Hammerstein equations [1], [3] are extended to equations in Hilbert spaces. The tools are a mountain pass theorem on closed convex substes of a Hilbert space due to Guo-Sun-Qi [1] and a new technique of checking the Palais-Smale compactness condition which was first presented in [4]. The results compplement those established in [4].
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Radu Precup
Department of Mathematics, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Hammerstein integral equation; compactness; critical point theory.
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R. Precup, Nontrivial solvability of Hammerstein integral equations in Hilbert spaces, Seminaire de la Theorie de la Mielleure Approximation Convexite et Optimisation, Cluj-Napoca, 26 octombre – 29 octobre, 2000, pp. 255-265.
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[2] M.A. Krasnoselskii, Topological Methods in the Theory of Nonlinear Integral equations, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1964.
[3] R. Precup, Nonlinear Integral Equations (Romanian), Babes-Bolyai Univ. Cluj, 1993.
[4] R. Precup, On the Palais-Smale condition for Hammerstein integral equations in Hilbert spaces, to appear.
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