Homoclinic solutions for subquadratic Hamiltonian systems with competition potentials

Abstract

In this paper, we consider of the following second-order Hamiltonian system \begin{equation*} \ddot{u}(t)-L(t)u(t)+\nabla W(t,u(t))=0,\qquad \forall t \in \mathbb{R}, \end{equation*} where $W(t,x)$ is subquadratic at infinity. With a competition condition, we establish the existence of homoclinic solutions by using the variational methods. In our theorem, the smallest eigenvalue function $l(t)$ of $L(t)$ is not necessarily coercive or bounded from above and $W(t,x)$ is not necessarily integrable on $\mathbb{R}$ with respect to $t$. Our theorem generalizes many known results in the references.

Keywords

• hamiltonian systems
• homoclinic solutions
• subquadratic potentials
• competition condition
• variational methods