Remarks on the Clark theorem

Abstract

The Clark theorem is important in critical point theory. For a class of even functionals it ensures the existence of infinitely many negative critical values converging to $0$ and it has important applications to sublinear elliptic problems. We study the convergence of the corresponding critical points and we give a characterization of accumulation points of critical points together with examples, in which critical points with negative critical values converges to non-zero critical point. Our results improve the abstract results in Kajikiya [Ka1] and Liu-Wang [LW].