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MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS FOR NONAUTONOMOUS SECOND ORDER PERIODIC SYSTEMS

  • Zdzislaw Denkowski ,
  • Leszek Gasinski ,
  • Nikolaos S. Papageorgiou
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  • Institute of Computer Science, Jagiellonian University,  ul. Nawojki 11, Cracow |30072, Poland

Received date: 2006-04-29

  Revised date: 2008-09-26

  Online published: 2010-01-20

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This research has been partially supported by the State Committee for Scientific Research of Poland (KBN) under research grants nr. 2 P03A 003 25 and nr. 4 T07A 027 26.

Abstract

We study nonautonomonus second order periodic systems with a nonsmooth potential. Using the nonsmooth critical theory, we establish the existence of at least two nontrivial solutions. Our framework incorporates large classes of both subquadratic and superquadratic potentials at infinity.

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Zdzislaw Denkowski , Leszek Gasinski , Nikolaos S. Papageorgiou . MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS FOR NONAUTONOMOUS SECOND ORDER PERIODIC SYSTEMS[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2010 , 30(1) : 341 -349 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(10)60051-3

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