Infinitely many homoclinic orbits for the second order Hamiltonian systems with general potentials (Q961068): Difference between revisions

The authors consider the second order Hamiltonian system \[ \text{(HS)}\;\;-\ddot{u}(t)+L(t)u(t)=\nabla R(t,u),\;\forall t\in \mathbb{R}, \] where \(L(t)\in C(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R}^{N^2})\) is a \(N\times N\) symmetric matrix valued function and \(R(t,u)\in C^1(\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}^N, \mathbb{R})\). They use the variant fountain theorem to prove that the system (HS) possesses infinitely many homoclinic orbits, assuming that \(L(t)\) satisfies the coercive condition and \(R(t,u)\) satisfies the conditions that (\(R_1\))\ \ \(R(t,u)=F(t,u)+G(t,u)\;\text{and}\;F, G\in C^1(\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}^N, \mathbb{R})\) are even in \(u\); (\(R_2\))\ \ There exist \(\sigma, \delta\in (1,2), c_1>0, c_2>0, c_3>0\) such that \[ c_1|u|^\sigma\leq F_u(t,u)u\leq c_2|u|^\sigma+c_3|u|^\delta \] for all \((t,u)\in \mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}^N;\) (\(R_3\))\ \ There exist \(\rho\geq2\) and \(c_4>0\) such that \(|G_u(t,u)|\leq c_4(1+|u|^{p-1})\) for all \((t,u)\in \mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}^{N}\), moreover, \(\lim_{u\to0}\frac{G_u(t,u)}{|u|}=0\) uniformly for \(t\in \mathbb{R}\); (\(R_4\))\ \ \(G(t,u)\geq0\) and \(\lim_{|u|\to\infty}\frac{G_u(t,u)}{|u|}=+\infty\) uniformly for all \(t\in \mathbb{R}.\) Conditions (\(R_2\))--(\(R_4\)) imply that \(F(t,u)\) is sub-quadratic and \(G(t,u)\) is super-quadratic, which generalize the sub-quadratic condition that (\(R\))\ \ \(0<u\cdot \nabla R(t,u)\leq \gamma R(t,u),\;\forall (t,u)\in \mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}^N\setminus\{0\},\) where \(\gamma\in(1,2)\). Reviewer's remark: In the proof of Lemma 3.3, the authors say that \`\` Set \(w_{n}:=\frac{u_{n}}{\|u_{n}\|}\), then \(\|w_{n}\|=1\), \(w_{n}\rightarrow w,\;w^{+}_{n}\rightarrow w^{+},\;w^{0}_{n}\rightarrow w^{0}\) and \(w^{-}_{n}\rightarrow w^{-}\)''. It seems that this conclusion is incorrect.