Existence and nonuniqueness of homoclinic solutions for second-order Hamiltonian systems with mixed nonlinearities

Abstract

In this paper, we study the existence of homoclinic solutions to the following second-order Hamiltonian systems \begin{eqnarray} \ddot{u}(t)-L(t)u(t)+\nabla W(t,u(t))=0,\quad \forall t\in R, \end{eqnarray} where $L(t)$ is a symmetric and positive definite matrix for all $t\in R$. The nonlinear potential $W$ is a combination of superlinear and sublinear terms. By different conditions on the superlinear and sublinear terms, we obtain existence and nonuniqueness of nontrivial homoclinic solutions to above systems.