Homoclinic orbits for asymptotically linear Hamiltonian systems (Q5953424)

The existence of a homoclinic orbit is proved in the paper for a Hamiltonian system \[ \dot z=JH_z(z,t),\tag{1} \] where \(z=(p,q)\in \mathbb R^{2N}\) and \(J=\left (\begin{smallmatrix} 0 & -I\\ I & 0\end{smallmatrix} \right)\). Furthermore, \(H(z,t)=\frac{1}{2}Az\cdot z+G(z,t)\) and \(H(0,t)=0\) with \(G_z(z,t)/|z|\to 0\) uniformly in \(t\) as \(z\to 0\), \(G\) is 1-periodic in \(t\) and asymptotically linear at infinity, and \(JA\) is a hyperbolic matrix. \(G\) has additional properties. A variational method is used to get an abstract theorem which is applied for showing a homoclinic orbit of (1). That theorem is also used to show a decaying solution of an asymptotically linear Schrödinger equation \(-\triangle u+V(x)u=f(x,u)\) for \(x\in \mathbb R^N\), \(V\in C(\mathbb R^n,\mathbb R)\) and \(f\in C(\mathbb R^N,\mathbb R)\).