An application of variational approach to a class of damped vibration problems with impulsive effects on time scales (Q2263742)

The paper concerns the following problem on a time scale \(\mathbb{T}\): \(u^{\Delta^2}(t)+B(u+u^\sigma)^\Delta (t)+A(\sigma(t))u(\sigma(t))+\nabla F(\sigma(t),u(\sigma(t)))=0\), \(\Delta\)-a.e. \(t\in [0,T]^{\kappa}_{\mathbb{T}}\), \(u(0)-u(T)=u^\Delta(0)-u^\Delta(T)=0\), with impulsive effects \((u^i)^\Delta(t_j^+)-(u^i)^\Delta(t_j^-)=I_{ij}\left(u^i(t_j)\right)\), for \(i=1,2,\ldots,N\), \(j=1,2,\ldots,p\) where \(t_0=0<t_1<\cdots<t_p<t_{p+1}=T\), \(t_j\in[0,T]_{\mathbb{T}}\), \(j=0,1,2,\ldots, p+1\). Here \(u(t)=\left(u^1(t),u^2(t),\ldots,u^N(t)\right)\), \(B\) is an antisymmetric \(N\times N\) constant matrix, \(A(t)\) is a symmetric \(L^\infty\) \(N\times N\) matrix, the functions \(I_{ij}:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}\) \((i=1,2,\ldots,N, j=1,2,\ldots,p)\) are continuous and \(F:[0,T]_{\mathbb{T}}\times \mathbb{R}^N\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is \(\Delta\)-measurable in \(t\) for every \(x\in \mathbb{R}^N\), continuosly differentiable in \(x\) for \(\Delta\)-a.e. \(t\in[0,T]_{\mathbb{T}}\) and such that \(\left|F(t,x)\right|,\left|\nabla F(t,x)\right|\leq a\left(\left|x\right|\right)b(t)\) for all \(x\in \mathbb{R}^N\) and \(\Delta\)-a.e. \(t\in[0,T]_{\mathbb{T}}\), where \(a\in C(\mathbb{R}^+,\mathbb{R}^+)\) and \(b^\sigma\in L^1(0,T;\mathbb{R}^+)\). The main results concern the existence and multiplicity of solutions of the described problem as an application of variational methods and critical point theory.