# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

April  1995, 1(2): 217-222. doi: 10.3934/dcds.1995.1.217

## Brake periodic orbits of prescribed Hamiltonian for indefinite Lagrangian systems

 1 EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 2 Istituto di Matematiche Applicate "U. Dini", Via Bonanno 25/B, Universita, 56100 Pisa, Italy

Received  June 1994 Published  February 1995

We deal with indefinite Lagrangian systems of the form

$x''+\partial_{x}V(x,y)=0,\ x\in R^{n};\qquad \ -y''+\partial_{y}V(x,y)=0,\ y\in R^{m},$

where $V\in C^{1}(R^{n+m},R)$. We are interested in the existence of a brake periodic orbit of prescribed Hamiltonian. This problem may be considered as a generalization of the classical case $m=0$, for which are known many existence results (Seifert theorem and its developments), and also a generalization of the case $n=1$, whose study has been initiated by Hofer and Toland and which is still under investigation. Here we assume at least a quadratic growth on $V$ in order to find a brake orbit via a linking variational principle.

Citation: B. Buffoni, F. Giannoni. Brake periodic orbits of prescribed Hamiltonian for indefinite Lagrangian systems. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, 1995, 1 (2) : 217-222. doi: 10.3934/dcds.1995.1.217
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