Variational Approach to a Class of Second Order Hamiltonian Systems on Time Scales

Author: Zhou Jianwen  

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

ISSN: 0167-8019

Source: Acta Applicandae Mathematicae, Vol.117, Iss.1, 2012-02, pp. : 47-69

Disclaimer: Any content in publications that violate the sovereignty, the constitution or regulations of the PRC is not accepted or approved by CNPIEC.

Previous Menu Next

Abstract

In this paper, we present a recent approach via variational methods and critical point theory to obtain the existence of solutions for the second order Hamiltonian system on time scale $mathbb{T}$ where u Δ(t) denotes the delta (or Hilger) derivative of u at t, $u^{Delta^{2}}(t)=(u^{Delta})^{Delta}(t)$ , σ is the forward jump operator, T is a positive constant, A(t)=[d ij (t)] is a symmetric N×N matrix-valued function defined on $[0,T]_{mathbb{T}}$ with $d_{ij}in L^{infty}([0,T]_{mathbb{T}},mathbb{R})$ for all i,j=1,2,…,N, and $F:[0,T]_{mathbb{T}}times mathbb{R}^{N}rightarrowmathbb{R}$ . By establishing a proper variational setting, two existence results and two multiplicity results are obtained. Finally, three examples are presented to illustrate the feasibility and effectiveness of our results.