Genericity of the multibump dynamics for almost periodic Duffing-like systems (Q4934076)

The authors consider slowly oscillating perturbations of almost-periodic Duffing-like systems, i.e. systems of the form \[ \ddot u=u-(a(t)+\alpha (\omega t))W'(u), \quad t\in \mathbb{R},\quad u\in \mathbb{R}^N, \tag{1} \] where \(W\in C^{2N}(\mathbb{R}^N,\mathbb{R})\) is superquadratic, i.e. there exists \(\theta >2\) such that \(0<\theta W(x)\leq W'(x)\) and \(W'(x)x<W''(x)xx\) for any \(x\neq 0\); \(a\in C(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R})\) and nonconstant \(\alpha\in C(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R})\) are positive and almost periodic. By variational methods, it is proved that if \(\omega >0\) is small enough, then system (1) admits a multibump dynamics. An important point is that there is no a priori knowledge of the dynamics of the unperturbed (\(\alpha \equiv 0\)) nonintegrable system (1). As a consequence it is shown that system (1) with \(\alpha \equiv 0\) admits multibump solutions whenever \(a\) belongs to an open dense with respect to the \(L^{\infty}\) topology subset of the set of positive almost-periodic continuous functions.