Subharmonic Solutions and Minimal Periodic Solutions of First-order Hamiltonian Systems with Anisotropic Growth

Abstract

Using a homologically link theorem in variational theory and iteration inequalities of Maslov-type index, we show the existence of a sequence of subharmonic solutions of non-autonomous Hamiltonian systems with the Hamiltonian functions satisfying some anisotropic growth conditions, i.e., the Hamiltonian functions may have simultaneously, in different components, superquadratic, subquadratic and quadratic behaviors. Moreover, we also consider the minimal period problem of some autonomous Hamiltonian systems with anisotropic growth.

18 pages. To appear in Discrete and continuous dynamical systems