Periodic solutions with prescribed minimal period to Hamiltonian systems

In this article, we study the existence of periodic solutions to second order Hamiltonian systems. Our goal is twofold. When the nonlinear term satisfies a strictly monotone condition, we show that, for any $T>0$ T > 0 , there exists a T-periodic solution with minimal period T. When the nonlinear term satisfies a non-decreasing condition, using a perturbation technique, we prove a similar result. In the latter case, the periodic solution corresponds to a critical point which minimizes the variational functional on the Nehari manifold which is not homeomorphic to the unit sphere.

Infinitely Many Solutions for a Generalized Periodic Boundary Value Problem without the Evenness Assumption

In this paper, we investigate infinitely many solutions for the generalized periodic boundary value problem −x″−B0tx+B1tx=λ∇xVt,xa.e.t∈0,1,x1=Mx0,x′1=Nx′0 under the potential function Vt,x without the evenness assumption and obtain two new existence results by the multiple critical point theorem. Meanwhile, we give two corollaries for the periodic solutions of second-order Hamiltonian systems and an example that illustrates our results.

Some multiplicity results of homoclinic solutions for second order Hamiltonian systems

We look for homoclinic solutions \(q:\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^N\) to the class of second order Hamiltonian systems \[-\ddot{q} + L(t)q = a(t) \nabla G_1(q) - b(t) \nabla G_2(q) + f(t) \quad t \in \mathbb{R}\] where \(L: \mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{N \times N}\) and \(a,b: \mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) are positive bounded functions, \(G_1, G_2: \mathbb{R}^N \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) are positive homogeneous functions and \(f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^N\). Using variational techniques and the Pohozaev fibering method, we prove the existence of infinitely many solutions if \(f\equiv 0\) and the existence of at least three solutions if \(f\) is not trivial but small enough.