Infinitely many periodic solutions for second order Hamiltonian systems (Q550009): Difference between revisions

Consider the second order Hamiltonian system \[ \ddot{u}(t)+ \nabla_u V(t,u(t))=0,\qquad u(0)=u(T),\;\dot{u}(0)=\dot{u}(T), \] where \(t\in \mathbb{R}\), \(V\in C^1(\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}^{N},\mathbb{R})\) is \(T\)-periodic and it has the form \(V(t,u)=\frac{1}{2}\langle U(t)u,u\rangle +W(t,u)\) with \(U\) a continuous \(T\)-periodic symmetric matrix, and \(\langle \cdot,\cdot\rangle\) the standard inner product in \(\mathbb{R}^{N}\). The authors study the existence of infinitely many nontrivial solutions of this system using the variant fountain theorems obtained by \textit{W. Zou} [Manuscr. Math. 104, No. 3, 343--358 (2001; Zbl 0976.35026)], under the hypothesis that \(W(t,u)\) is even in the variable \(u\).