Minimax Methods in Critical Point Theory with Applications to Differential Equations

An overview The mountain pass theorem and some applications Some variants of the mountain pass theorem The saddle point theorem Some generalizations of the mountain pass theorem Applications to Hamiltonian systems Functionals with symmetries and index theorems Multiple critical points of symmetric functionals: problems with constraints Multiple critical points of symmetric functionals: the unconstrained case Pertubations from symmetry Variational methods in bifurcation theory.