Homoclinic orbits for a special class of non autonomous Hamiltonian systems (Q4378728)

The author is concerned with the existence problem of homoclinic solutions for second order Hamiltonian systems \(\ddot x-a(t)| x|^{p-2} x+W_x (t,x)=0\), \((t, s)\in \mathbb{R}^1 \times \mathbb{R}^N\), (1) where \(W(t,x)\), besides other technical assumptions, is superquadratic at the origin and at infinity for \(x\), and \(a(t)\) is a continuous function satisfying \(a(t)\geq \gamma| t|^\alpha\), \(\forall t\in\mathbb{R}^1\), with \(\alpha> {p-2 \over 2}\), \(\gamma >0\). An existence theorem of an unbounded sequence of homoclinic orbits for (1) is proved under some reasonable conditions. As special cases, the author deals concretely with the following systems \[ \ddot x-a(t)| x|^{p-2} x+Ax=0, \] in two different cases: 1) \(p>2\), which implies that \(a(t)\to +\infty\) at infinity; 2) \(1<p<2\) and \(a(t)\to 0\) at infinity in a suitable way.