On the existence of homoclinic type solutions of a class of inhomogenous second order Hamiltonian systems

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Abstract: We show the existence of homoclinic type solutions of second order Hamiltonian systems with a potential satisfying a relaxed superquadratic growth condition and a forcing term that is sufficiently small in the space of square integrable functions. The idea of our proof is to approximate the original system by time-periodic ones, with larger and larger time-periods. We prove that the latter systems admit periodic solutions of mountain-pass type, and obtain homoclinic type solutions of the original system from them by passing to the limit (in the topology of almost uniform convergence) when the periods go to infinity.


The main result of the paper is the existence of homoclinic-type solutions of the second-order Hamiltonian system \[ \ddot{q}(t)+\nabla_qV(t,q(t))=f(t), t\in \mathbb R, \] with \(\lim_{t\to \pm \infty} q(t)= \lim_{t\to \pm \infty} \dot{q}(t)=0\). Here the \(C^1\)-smooth potential \(V:\mathbb R \times \mathbb R^n \to \mathbb R\) satisfies a relaxed superquadratic growth condition, its gradient is uniformly bounded in the time variable on every compact subset of \(\mathbb R^n\), and the norm of the forcing term \(f\) in the space of square integrable functions is sufficiently small. It generalizes the authors' earlier result [Differ. Integral Equ. 30, No. 3--4, 259--272 (2017; Zbl 1424.37036)]. The idea of the proof is to approximate the original system by time-periodic systems with periods tending to infinity. The mountain-pass argument is then used and the limit in the topology of almost uniform convergence concludes the proof. Several 1-dimensional examples are presented together with numerical solutions.



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