Homoclinic solutions for a class of autonomous second order Hamiltonian systems with a superquadratic potential (Q536502)

The paper deals with the ODE \[ \ddot{q}-\nabla K(q)+\nabla V(q)=0, \] where \(K, V:\mathbb{R}^N\to\mathbb{R}\) are \(C^1\), \(K\) grows quadratically and \(V\) superquadratically. Using variational methods the existence of a nontrivial homoclinic solution \(q_0\in W^{1,2}(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R}^n)\) is obtained with \(q_0(t), \dot{q}_0(t)\to 0\) as \(|t|\to\infty\).