The Palais-Smale Condition C holds for the Yang-Mills functional on principal bundles over compact manifolds of dimension ≤ 3. This was established by S. Sedlacek [17] and C. Taubes [18] Proposition 4.5 using the compactness theorem of K. Uhlenbeck [20]; see also [23]. It is well known that Condition C fails for Yang-Mills over compact manifolds of dimension ≥ 4. The example of SO(3)-invariant ...

We establish an existence result for semilinear elliptic problems with the associated functional not satisfying the Palais-Smale condition. The nonlinearity of our problem does not satisfy the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition.

In this paper, the notions of countable S∗-compactness is introduced in L-topological spaces based on the notion of S∗-compactness. An S∗-compact L-set is countably S∗-compact. If L = [0, 1], then countable strong compactness implies countable S∗-compactness and countable S∗-compactness implies countable F-compactness, but each inverse is not true. The intersection of a countably S∗-compact L-s...

A kind of new fuzzy compactness, called near SR-compactness, is de4ned for an arbitrary L-subset and for L a complete DeMorgan algebra. This kind of fuzzy compactness is between Lowen’s strong fuzzy compactness and the second author’s SR-compactness. Characterizations and examples of near SR-compact L-subsets are given, and its topological properties are systematically investigated. c © 2003 El...