New results on periodic solutions for second order damped vibration systems (Q6054807)

In this paper, the author considers the following second-order damped vibration system \[ \begin{cases} \ddot{u}(t)+A\dot{u}(t)+\nabla_{u} V(s,u(t))ds,\ \forall t\in\mathbb{R},\\ u(0)=u(T)=\dot{u}(0)-\dot{u}(T)=0,\ T>0 \end{cases} \tag{1} \] where \(A\) is a skew-symmetric matrix, \(V(t,x)=-K(t,x)+W(t,x)\) and \(K,W\in C^{2}(\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}^{n},\mathbb{R})\) are \(T\)-periodic in the first variable. Using variational methods and the Fountain Theorem, he proves under suitable conditions on \(A,K,W\) that problem (1) possesses a sequence \((u_{k})\) of odd \(T\)-periodic solutions satisfying \(\left\|u_{k}\right\|\longrightarrow\infty\) as \(k\longrightarrow\infty\).