Journal of Inequalities and Applications 
Volume 6 (2000), Issue 3, Pages 261-285
doi:10.1155/S1025583401000169

On a minimax problem of ricceri

Giuseppe Cordaro

Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Messina, Sant'Agata, Messina 98166, Italy

Received 18 August 1999; Revised 20 October 1999

Abstract

Let E be a real separable and reflexive Banach space, X⊆E weakly closed and unbounded, Φ and Ψ two non-constant weakly sequentially lower sernicontinuous functionals defined on X, such that Φ+λΨ is coercive for each λ≥0. In this setting, if supλ≥0infx∈X(Φ(x)+λ(Ψ(x)+ρ))=infx∈Xsupλ≥0(Φ(x)+λ(Ψ(x)+ρ)) for every ρ∈R, then, one has supλ≥0infx∈X(Φ(x)+λΨ(x)+h(λ))=infx∈Xsupλ≥0(Φ(x)+λΨ(x)h(λ)), for every concave function h:[0,+∞[→R.