Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
Mathematics
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
2-2004
Abstract/Description
We study a Hamiltonian system that has a superquadratic potential and is asymptotic to an autonomous system. In particular, we show the existence of a nontrivial solution homoclinic to zero. Many results of this type rely on a convexity condition on the nonlinearity, which makes the problem resemble in some sense the special case of homogeneous (power) nonlinearity. This paper replaces that condition with a different condition, which is automatically satisfied when the autonomous system is radially symmetric. Our proof employs variational and mountain-pass arguments. In some similar results requiring the convexity condition, solutions inhabit a submanifold homeomorphic to the unit sphere in the appropriate Hilbert space of functions. An important part of the proof here is the construction of a similar manifold, using only the mountain-pass geometry of the energy functional.
Publication Title
Electronic Journal of Differential Equations
Publisher
Texas State University, San Marcos, Department of Mathematics
Scholarly Commons Citation
Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, Vol. 2004(2004), No. 21, pp. 1–13. ISSN: 1072-6691. URL: http://ejde.math.txstate.edu or http://ejde.math.unt.edu ftp ejde.math.txstate.edu
