Nontrivial periodic solutions for asymptotically linear hamiltonian systems at resonance

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the existence of nontrivial $1$-periodic solutions of the following Hamiltonian systems \begin{eqnarray} -J\dot{z}=H'(t,z), z\in R^{2N}, \end{eqnarray} where $J$ is the standard symplectic matrix of $2N\times 2N$, $H\in C^2 ( [0,1] \times R^{2N}, R)$ is $1$-periodic in its first variable and $H'(t,z)$ denotes the gradient of $H$ with respect to the variable $z$. Furthermore, $H'(t,z)$ is asymptotically linear both at origin and at infinity. Based on the precise computations of the critical groups, Maslov-type index theory and Galerkin approximation procedure, we obtain some existence results for nontrivial $1$-periodic solutions under new classes of conditions. It turns out that our main results improve sharply some known results in the literature.