101. Existence of positive homoclinic solutions for damped differential equations
- Author
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Monia Boujlida and Adel Daouas
- Subjects
Discrete mathematics ,Pure mathematics ,Differential equation ,General Mathematics ,010102 general mathematics ,Operator theory ,01 natural sciences ,Prime (order theory) ,Potential theory ,Theoretical Computer Science ,010101 applied mathematics ,Critical point (thermodynamics) ,Mountain pass theorem ,Homoclinic orbit ,0101 mathematics ,Constant (mathematics) ,Analysis ,Mathematics - Abstract
This paper is concerned with the existence of positive homoclinic solutions for the second-order differential equation $$\begin{aligned} u^{\prime \prime }+cu^{\prime }-a(t)u+f(t,u)=0, \end{aligned}$$ where \(c\ge 0\) is a constant and the functions a and f are continuous and not necessarily periodic in t. Under other suitable assumptions on a and f, we obtain the existence of positive homoclinic solutions in both cases sub-quadratic and super-quadratic by using critical point theorems.
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- 2017