Homoclinic orbits for a class of first-order nonperiodic asymptotically quadratic Hamiltonian systems with spectrum point zero (Q631838)

The authors consider the following first-order Hamiltonian system \[ \dot{u}(t)=\mathcal{J}H_u(t,u), t\in \mathbb{R}, \] where \(u=(y,z)\in \mathbb{R}^{2N}, \mathcal{J}\) is the standard symplectic matrix in \(\mathbb{R}^{2N}\), and \(H\in C^1(\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}^{2N},\mathbb{R})\) has the form \(H(t,u)=\frac{1}{2}Lu \cdot u +W(t,u)\) with \(L\) being a \(2N\times 2N\) symmetric constant matrix, and \(W\in C^1(\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}^{2N},\mathbb{R})\). The main result of the paper shows, by using two recent critical point theorems for strongly indefinite functionals [\textit{T. Bartsch} and \textit{Y. Ding}, Math. Nachr. 279, No. 12, 1267--1288 (2006; Zbl 1117.58007)], that if the technical working assumptions \((L_1)\), \((H_1) -(H_5)\) hold, then the considered Hamiltonian system has at least one homoclinic orbit (Theorem 1.1).