Periodic solutions with prescribed minimal period for the second order Hamiltonian systems with even potentials (Q1958711)

The article deals with \(T\)-periodic solutions of the autonomous superquadratic second order Hamiltonian system \[ \ddot{x} + V'(x) = 0,\tag{1} \] where \(V: {\mathbb R}^n \to {\mathbb R}\) is an even smooth function. The main result is the following one: if \(V\) is even and there exists \(\theta > 1\) such that \(0 < \theta V'(x)x \leq V''(x)[x]^2\), \(x \neq 0\), then, for every \(T > 0\), system (1) has at least one \(T\)-periodic solution with \(T\) as its minimal period.