Publisher's Synopsis
This volume brings together papers presented during the fourteenth course on Variational Methods in Non-linear Analysis held at Erice, Sicily, from the 12th-20th of May 1992.;Attended by international experts from ten countries, the aim of the course was to stimulate discussion on recent advances in the Calculus of Variations in the Large and its applications to Non-linear Analysis. The course was structured around a series of plenary addresses on the state of the art in the field, invited lectures and short communications.