REMARKS ON THE CLARK THEOREM

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 [4] and Liu-Wang [7].