Homoclinic solutions for ordinary \(p\)-Laplacian systems with a coercive potential (Q1026074)

The existence of homoclinic orbits is shown for \(p\)-Laplacian systems \[ \frac{d}{dt}\left(|\dot u(t)|^{p-2}\dot u(t)\right)=\nabla F(t,u(t))+f(t), \] where \(p>1\), \(t\in\mathbb R\), \(u\in\mathbb R^n\), \(F\in C^1(\mathbb R\times\mathbb R^n,\mathbb R)\) is \(T\)-periodic with respect to \(t\), and \(f:\mathbb R\to\mathbb R^n\) is a continuous and bounded function. It is supposed that \[ F(t,x)\geq F(t,0)+b|x|^{\mu}\quad \text{for some }b>0 \] and \[ \int_{\mathbb R}|f(t)|^{\mu/(\mu -1)}dt<\infty\quad \text{for some }\mu >1. \] The obtained results generalize the results by the authors for the Hamiltonian system \[ \ddot u(t)=\nabla F(t,u(t))+f(t) \] [\textit{X.~H.~Tang} and \textit{L.~Xiao}, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 351, No.~2, 586--594 (2009; Zbl 1153.37408)].