Mountain Pass Solutions for a Double-Well Energy

Abstract

We establish the existence of a mountain pass solution for a variational integral involving a quasiconvex function with a double-well structure in the geometrically linear elasticity setting. We show that under small dead-load perturbations, the Neumann boundary value problem has at least three solutions, a global minimizer, a local minimizer and a mountain pass solution. We show that our variational integral satisfies a Weak Palais–Smale condition (WPS) hence the mountain pass lemma applies.