Nonlinear second-order periodic systems with non-smooth potential

DOI10.1007/BF02830004MaRDI QIDQ1884014zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Evgenia H. Papageorgiou, Nikolaos S. Papageorgiou

Publication date 25 October 2004

Published in Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503087

nonsmooth critical point theory ordinary vector \(p\)-Laplacian

Ordinary differential inclusions (34A60) Homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C37) Variational methods involving nonlinear operators (47J30) Nonsmooth analysis (49J52) Set-valued and variational analysis (49J53)

Abstract: In this paper we study second order non-linear periodic systems driven by the ordinary vector

p

-Laplacian with a non-smooth, locally Lipschitz potential function. Our approach is variational and it is based on the non-smooth critical point theory. We prove existence and multiplicity results under general growth conditions on the potential function. Then we establish the existence of non-trivial homoclinic (to zero) solutions. Our theorem appears to be the first such result (even for smooth problems) for systems monitored by the

p

-Laplacian. In the last section of the paper we examine the scalar hbox{non-linear} and semilinear problem. Our approach uses a generalized Landesman--Lazer type condition which generalizes previous ones used in the literature. Also for the semilinear case the problem is at resonance at any eigenvalue.

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By using nonsmooth critical point theory, the authors prove the existence of a solution and the existence of two distinct solutions for the following second-order nonlinear periodic systems with a nonsmooth locally Lipschitz potential function \[ -(\| x'(t)\| ^{p-2}x'(t))'+g(t)\| x(t)\| ^{p-2}x(t)\in \partial j(t,x(t))\quad \text{ a.e. on } T\in[0,b], \] \[ x(0)=x(b),\quad x'(0)=x'(b), \quad 1<p<\infty, \] where the differential operator of the left-hand side is the vectorial \(p\)-Laplacian and \(\partial j\) denotes the generalized Clarke subdifferential. Next, they prove the existence of nontrivial homoclinic solutions (to zero) for the homoclinic problem in \({\mathbb R}^{N}\) corresponding to the above problem. In the last part of the paper, the authors study the scalar nonlinear and semilinear problem by using a generalized Landesman-Lazer-type condition.

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