Nontrivial periodic motions for resonant type asymptotically linear lattice dynamical systems

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the following one dimensional lattices consisting of infinitely many particles with nearest neighbor interactionq¨i(t)=Φi−1′(t,qi−1(t)−qi(t))−Φi′(t,qi(t)−qi+1(t)),i∈Z, where Φi(t,x)=−(αi/2)|x|2+Vi(t,x) is T-periodic in t for T>0 and satisfies Φi+N=Φi for some N∈N, qi(t) is the state of the i-th particle. Assume that αi=0 for some i∈Z and Vi′(t,x) denoting the derivative of Vi respect to x is asymptotically linear with x both at origin and at infinity. We would like to point out that this system is resonant both at origin and at infinity and not studied up to now. Based on some new results concerning the precise computations of the critical groups, for a given m∈Z, we obtain the existence of nontrivial periodic solutions satisfying qi+mN(t+T)=qi(t) for all t∈R and i∈Z under some additional conditions.