A Global Diffeomorphism Theorem for Fréchet spaces

Abstract

We give sufficient conditions for a $C_c^1$-local diffeomorphism between Fréchet spaces to be a global one. We extend the Clarke's theory of generalized gradients to the more general setting of Fréchet spaces. As a consequence, we define the Chang Palais-Smale condition for Lipschitz functions and show that a function which is bounded below and satisfies the Chang Palais-Smale condition at all levels is coercive. We prove a version of the mountain pass theorem for Lipschitz maps in the Fréchet setting and show that along with the Chang Palais-Smale condition we can obtain a global diffeomorphism theorem.

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• Chang Palais-Smale condition and global inversion