Variational, Topological, and Partial Order Methods with Their Applications [Hardcover]

Nonlinear functional analysis is an important branch of contemporary mathematics. It's related to topology, ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, groups, dynamical systems, differential geometry, measure theory, and more. In this book, the author presents some new and interesting results on fundamental methods in nonlinear functional analysis, namely variational, topological and partial order methods, which have been used extensively to solve existence of solutions for elliptic equations, wave equations, Schr?dinger equations, Hamiltonian systems etc., and are also used to study the existence of multiple solutions and properties of solutions. This book is useful for researchers and graduate students in the field of nonlinear functional analysis.

1 Preliminaries.- Sobolev spaces and embedding theorems.- Critical point.- Cone and partial order.- Brouwer Degree.- Compact map and Leray-Schauder Degree.- Fredholm operators.- Fixed point index.- Banach's Contract Theorem, Implicit Functions Theorem.- Krein-Rutman theorem.- Bifurcation theory.- Rearrangements of sets and functions.- Genus and Category.- Maximum principles and symmetry of solution.- Comparison theorems.- 2 Cone and Partial Order Methods.- Increasing operators.- Decreasing operators.- Mixed monotone operators.- Applications of mixed monotone operators.- Further results on cones and partial order methods.- 3 Minimax Methods.- Mountain Pass Theorem and Minimax Principle.- Linking Methods.- Local linking Methods.- 4 Bifurcation and Critical Point.- Introduction.- Main results with parameter.- Equations without the parameter.- 5 Solutions of a Class of Monge-Amp?re Equations.- Introduction.- Moving plane argument.- Existence and non-existence results.- Bifurcation and the equation with a parameter.- Appendix.- 6 Topological Methods and Applications.- Superlinear system of integral equations and applications.- Existence of positive solutions for a selã7