Bifurcation for Second-Order Hamiltonian Systems with Periodic Boundary Conditions英文文献资料.docVIP

HindawiPublishingCorporation AbstractandAppliedAnalysis Volume2008,ArticleID756934,13pages doi:10.1155/2008/756934 ResearchArticle BifurcationforSecond-OrderHamiltonianSystems withPeriodicBoundaryConditions FrancescaFaraciandAntonioIannizzotto Dipartimento diMatematica eInformatica, Universit`adiCatania,VialeA.Doria6,95125Catania,Italy Correspondence shouldbeaddressedtoAntonioIannizzotto, iannizzotto@dmi.unict.it Received12March2007;Revised21June2007;Accepted18December2007 Recommended byJeanMawhin Through variational methods, westudynonautonomous systems ofsecond-order ordinary di?er- entialequationswithperiodicboundaryconditions.First,wedealwithanonlinearsystem,depend- ing onafunction u,and prove that the setofbifurcation points for the solutions ofthe system is notσ-compact. Then,wedealwithalinearsystem depending onarealparameter λ 0andona function u,andprovethatthereexistsλ? suchthatthesetofthefunctions u,suchthatthesystem admitsnontrivialsolutions,containsanaccumulation point. Copyrightq2008F.FaraciandA.Iannizzotto. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproductioninanymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited. 1.Introduction Inthepresentpaper,wewilldealwithnonautonomousHamiltoniansystemswithperiodic boundaryconditions,dependingonafunctionu,ofthefollowingtype:   v¨ Atv?F t,vut a.e.inI, v0?vTv˙0?v˙T0, Nu whereI 0,Tisarealinterval,A·isanN×Nsymmetric,positivede?nitematrix;andthe functionF : I×RN → R,referredtoasthepotential,ismeasurablewithrespecttothescalar variableandcontinuouslydi?erentiablewithrespecttothevectorvariablenotethatby?F wewillalwaysmeanthegradientofFwithrespecttothevectorvariable. Thefunctionuisregardedasaparameter,andweareinterestedinstudyingthestructure ofthesetofthesolutionsofNu,asuvariesinasuitablefunctionspaceX.Inparticular,we willfocusonthosefunctionsuwhicharebifurcationpointsforthepro