# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

March  2017, 37(3): 1425-1436. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017059

## Multiple periodic solutions of Hamiltonian systems confined in a box

 1 Dipartimento di Matematica e Geoscienze, Universitá degli Studi di Trieste, P.le Europa 1, Ⅰ-34127 Trieste, Italy 2 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e Scienze Matematiche, Universitá Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche 12, Ⅰ-60131 Ancona, Italy

* Corresponding author: Alessandro Fonda

Received  June 2015 Revised  October 2016 Published  December 2016

Fund Project: The authors were partially supported by INdAM-GNAMPA

We consider a nonautonomous Hamiltonian system, $T$-periodic in time, possibly defined on a bounded space region, the boundary of which consists of singularity points which can never be attained. Assuming that the system has an interior equilibrium point, we prove the existence of infinitely many $T$-periodic solutions, by the use of a generalized version of the Poincaré-Birkhoff theorem.

Citation: Alessandro Fonda, Andrea Sfecci. Multiple periodic solutions of Hamiltonian systems confined in a box. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2017, 37 (3) : 1425-1436. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017059
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The regions where we estimate the angular velocity of the solutions, in the three cases (a), (b) and (c)
The construction of the first lap of the guiding curve, outside the rectangle $\mathcal{R}(p_2)$, using the level curves of the energy functions
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