Multiple critical points for a class of periodic lower semicontinuous functionals

Cristian Bereanu; Petru Jebelean

doi:10.3934/dcds.2013.33.47

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Multiple critical points for a class of periodic lower semicontinuous functionals

Cristian Bereanu^1, and
Petru Jebelean^2,

1.
Institute of Mathematics "Simion Stoilow", Romanian Academy, 21, Calea Griviţei, RO-010702-Bucharest, Sector 1
2.
Department of Mathematics, West University of Timişoara, 4, Blvd. V. Pârvan RO-300223-Timişoara

Received: September 30, 2011

Revised: December 31, 2011

Published: December 2012

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We deal with a class of functionals $I$ on a Banach space $X,$ having the structure $I=\Psi+\mathcal G,$ with $\Psi : X \to (- \infty , + \infty ]$ proper, convex, lower semicontinuous and $\mathcal G: X \to \mathbb{R} $ of class $C^1.$ Also, $I$ is $G$-invariant with respect to a discrete subgroup $G\subset X$ with $\mbox{dim (span}\ G)=N$. Under some appropriate additional assumptions we prove that $I$ has at least $N+1$ critical orbits. As a consequence, we obtain that the periodically perturbed $N$-dimensional relativistic pendulum equation has at least $N+1$ geometrically distinct periodic solutions.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: 35J20, 35J60, 35J93.

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