Existence of periodic orbits near heteroclinic connections

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Abstract: We consider a potential W:RmightarrowR with two different global minima a,a+ and, under a symmetry assumption, we use a variational approach to show that the Hamiltonian system �egin{equation} ddot{u}=W_u(u), hskip 2cm (1) end{equation} has a family of T-periodic solutions uT which, along a sequence Tjightarrow+infty, converges locally to a heteroclinic solution that connects a to a+. We then focus on the elliptic system �egin{equation} Delta u=W_u(u),;; u:R^2 ightarrow R^m, hskip 2cm (2) end{equation} that we interpret as an infinite dimensional analogous of (1), where x plays the role of time and W is replaced by the action functional [J_R(u)=int_RBigl(frac{1}{2}vert u_yvert^2+W(u)Bigr)dy.] We assume that JR has two different global minimizers in the set of maps that connect a to a+. We work in a symmetric context and prove, via a minimization procedure, that (2) has a family of solutions uL:R2ightarrowRm, which is L-periodic in x, converges to apm as yightarrowpminfty and, along a sequence Ljightarrow+infty, converges locally to a heteroclinic solution that connects to .



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