Rotating Quasi-periodic Solutions of Second Order Hamiltonian Systems with Sub-quadratic Potential
Jiamin Xing, Xue Yang, Yong Li

TL;DR
This paper establishes the existence of multiple rotating quasi-periodic solutions in second order Hamiltonian systems with sub-quadratic potentials, introducing a new index to estimate their number.
Contribution
It introduces the $ ext{Q}(s)$ index, a novel tool for analyzing rotating quasi-periodic solutions in Hamiltonian systems with sub-quadratic potentials.
Findings
Proves existence of multiple rotating quasi-periodic solutions.
Develops the $ ext{Q}(s)$ index for solution estimation.
Provides bounds on the number of such solutions.
Abstract
This paper concerns the existence of multiple rotating quasi-periodic solutions for second order Hamiltonian systems with sub-quadratic potential. Such solutions have the form for some orthogonal matrix . To deal with such quasi-periodic solutions, we introduce the index which is a development of the well known index. Applying the index, we give an estimate of the number for rotating quasi-periodic orbits with a fixed period.
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TopicsQuantum chaos and dynamical systems · Advanced Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems · Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Rotating Quasi-periodic Solutions of Second Order Hamiltonian Systems with Sub-quadratic Potential
Jiamin Xinga , Xue Yanga,b , Yong Lib,a
aSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, and
Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences,
Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, P. R. China.
bCollege of Mathematics, Jilin University,
Changchun, 130012, P. R. China. E-mail address : [email protected]. E-mail address : [email protected]. E-mail address : [email protected] author
Abstract.
This paper concerns the existence of multiple rotating quasi-periodic solutions for second order Hamiltonian systems with sub-quadratic potential. Such solutions have the form for some orthogonal matrix . To deal with such quasi-periodic solutions, we introduce the index which is a development of the well known index. Applying the index, we give an estimate of the number for rotating quasi-periodic orbits with a fixed period.
Key Words: Multiple rotating quasi-periodic solutions; Second order Hamiltonian systems; Index theory.
Mathematics Subject Classification(2010): 70H05; 70H12.
1 Introduction and main results
Consider the second order Hamiltonian system
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where . The existence theory of periodic solutions for system (1.1) has been well developed, for example, see [2, 11, 15, 17, 19, 21, 22] and the references therein. For quasi-periodic solutions, it is generally very difficult due to the small divisor. The celebrated KAM theory answers that most quasi-periodic solutions are persistent under small perturbations, see [7, 1, 13] for non-resonant case and [8] for resonant case. In the present paper, we study the existence of rotating quasi-periodic solutions with the form for some orthogonal matrix . It is a symmetric periodic or quasi-periodic one. Recently, such solutions have been studied by many works. Hu and Wang [5] established the theory of conditional Fredholm determinant to study rotating quasi-periodic orbits in Hamiltonian systems. Hu et al [6] gave some stability criteria for the symmetric periodic orbits and used them to study the linear stability of elliptic Lagrangian solutions of the classical planar three-body problem. Chang and Li [3] considered rotating quasi-periodic solutions of second order dissipative dynamical systems. Liu et al [9] studied multiple rotating quasi-periodic solutions of asymptotically linear Hamiltonian systems. Liu [10] and Zhang [20] obtained symmetric periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems on a given convex energy surface respectively.
By the structure of (1.1), one should consider rotating quasi-periodic solutions if is invariant for some orthogonal matrix , that is for . Clearly, the rotating quasi-periodic solution is periodic if (identity matrix), anti-periodic if , subharmonic if for some positive integer , or quasi-periodic if for all .
Throughout the paper we assume satisfies the following:
- (V1)
is twice differentiable at , and ; 2. (V2)
if is a critical point of , i.e. , then ; 3. (V3)
satisfies the invariance mentioned above.
For a solution of (1.1), the corresponding orbit is the set and two solutions and are geometrically distinct or have different orbits if .
Let
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Then is a Hilbert space with the inner product
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where denotes the inner product in . Let denote the norm on and the norm on . The linearized operator corresponding to (1.1) on is given by
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It follows from (V3) that
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Thus there exists a unitary matrix such that
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where for . With a simple calculation, we obtain that the eigenvalues of on are
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for and . Let
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Now we state our main results.
Theorem 1.1**.**
Assume and satisfies (V1), (V2), (V3) and
- (V4)
* is bounded;* 2. (V5)
* for and .*
Then system (1.1) has at least geometrically distinct -rotating quasi-periodic solutions.
Remark 1.1**.**
By (1.2) and (1.3), for , we have and . If or , is a complex vector and one has
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Clearly, the multiplicity of eigenvalue is even. Then there exists a with such that and . It follows that , and the number is even. When or , is obviously even. Hence is even and is an integer.
We also have the following.
Theorem 1.2**.**
Assume and satisfies (V1), (V2), (V3) and
- (V6)
there are and such that
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there are constants and such that for all , where denotes the projection of on .
Then system (1.1) has at least geometrically distinct -rotating quasi-periodic solutions.
Remark 1.2**.**
In Theorem 1.1 and Theorem 1.2, is sub-quadratic in the sense that it grows less than . When our results are consistent with Theorem 4.1 and Theorem 4.2 of Benci [2].
When , assumption (V2) is contained in (V1) and (V7) contained in (V6). Hence we have the following.
Corollary 1.1**.**
Assume , and satisfies (V1), (V3) and (V6). Then system (1.1) has at least geometrically distinct -rotating quasi-periodic solutions.
Remark 1.3**.**
When , coercive assumptions (V5) or (V7) are required to obtain the existence of periodic solutions. Corollary 1.1 indicates that the coercive condition can be replaced by some invariance, such as .
To prove Theorem 1.1 and Theorem 1.2, we introduce the index and apply the Ljusternik-Schnirelmann theory of critical points. The index is a development of index which is a powerful tool to study periodic solutions of Hamiltonian system. For literature, see [4, 14].
The paper is organized as follows. In section 2 we introduce the definition of index and show the properties that will be used in the proof of main results. In sections 3 and 4 we give the proof of Theorem 1.1 and Theorem 1.2 respectively following the method from Benci [2] on periodic solutions.
2 index
In this section, we introduce a new index to rotating quasi-periodic orbits. First, we recall the concept of index due to Rabinowitz [16].
Suppose that is a Banach space with a group acting on it. Set
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Let
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be the set of invariant subsets of .
Definition 2.1**.**
An index for is a mapping such that for all ,
- (i)
Normalization: if , ; 2. (ii)
Mapping property: if is continuous and equivariant which means for all , then
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Monotonicity property: If , then ; 4. (iv)
Continuity property: if is compact and , then and there exists a neighborhood of such that
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Subadditivity: .
For , consider the group action on :
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Clearly, is invariant, that is, if , then for all .
Now we give the index:
Definition 2.2**.**
A index of an invariant subset of is the smallest integer such that there exists a
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with and
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where , , , and for . If such a does not exist, define , and if , define .
We need to show:
Lemma 2.1**.**
The index is one in the sense of Definition 2.1.
Proof.
(i) For , consider the function
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Then one has
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Hence for ,
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Thus there exist a component and with , such that
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Now for , assume for some , and . Let
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Then , and
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proving (i).
(ii) If , the result is obvious. If , there exists a
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such that and
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Define for . Then
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which yields .
(iii) Since the inclusion map is equivariant, the monotonicity property is obvious.
(iv) When , the result is obvious. When , for each and , as in the proof of (i) there exist a component and with , such that
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Clearly, there exists a neighbourhood of such that for each and ,
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Since is compact, there exist finite for such that
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Let
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where , for . Then for each , and
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for .
Assume . Then there exists a mapping
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satisfying Definition 2.2. Since is a closed set, by Tietze’s theorem there exists a continuous extension of over for each . Now define a mapping by
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Since is an almost periodic function on , (2.11) is well defined. Clearly, is continuous, for and
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Let
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Then it is easy to see that is invariant. Since is continuous and for , there exists a such that for which yields . By monotonicity one has . Thus
(v) If or , the result is obvious. Assume and , then there exist
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for satisfying (2.4). Similar to the proof of (iv), there exist continuous extensions of for over satisfying (2.4). Define
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by
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Then for every and satisfies (2.4), yielding . ∎
A -orbit is the set for some . We have the following.
Lemma 2.2**.**
Assume is an invariant subset of such that
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If , then there exist at least -orbits on .
Proof.
Assume only contains orbits: . As in the proof of Lemma 2.1, for each and , there exist a component and with such that
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for . Now let
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where . Then and
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Thus and the assumption is not true, proving the lemma. ∎
Let denote a class of homeomorphisms satisfying the following conditions,
- (a)
is equivariant and ; 2. (b)
given a compact set contained in a finite dimensional invariant space and a constant , there exist a finite dimensional invariant space and an equivariant homeomorphism such that for all .
It is easy to see that if , then . Denote
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Assume is a real continuous function on . For , define
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It is obviously that for . Then
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Set
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where is a constant.
Now we give an important property of the index.
Theorem 2.1**.**
Assume is invariant and satisfies (P.-S.) (Palais-Smale condition). If and , then is a critical value of . Moreover, if for some , then
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Before proving Theorem 2.1, we introduce the concept of “pseudo-gradient”.
Definition 2.3**.**
Assume is a Banach space, and
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A pseudo-gradient vector field for on is a locally Lipschitz continuous mapping such that for every ,
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We need the following.
Lemma 2.3**.**
(see [12]). Under the assumption of Definition 2.3, there exists a pseudo-gradient vector field for on .
Lemma 2.4**.**
Assume is invariant, then there exists an equivariant pseudo-gradient vector filed for on . That is, for every and .
Proof.
By Lemme 2.3, there exists a pseudo-gradient vector field . Define by
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Obviously, is almost periodic in , and is well defined. Hence for ,
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By a simple calculation, we obtain
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It suffices to show that is locally Lipschitz continuous. For , denote , then the closure is the hull of and so is compact. Hence there exists a such that is Lipschitz continuous on
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Clearly, is invariant, and for each we have
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where is the Lipschitz constant of on . ∎
Lemma 2.5**.**
Assume is invariant and satisfies (P.-S.). Let be an open invariant neighbourhood of . Then for each , there exist and such that
- (i)
; 2. (ii)
if , for each ; 3. (iii)
; 4. (iv)
if and , for each .
Proof.
First we claim that for each given , there exists a such that if , then
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where denotes the complement of , and is the neighbourhood of . If such a does not exist, there is a sequence such that
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and
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Since satisfies (P.-S.), it has a convergent subsequence, without loss of generality, still denoted by . Assume , then
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and , a contradiction.
Let
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Then and if , if . Define a continuous function on by
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where is an equivariant pseudo-gradient vector filed for . Since is locally Lipschitz continuous and bounded, the following Cauchy problem has a unique solution defined on :
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Let
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Then is continuous and is a homeomorphism for each .
Now we prove that satisfies (i)-(iv).
(i) Since
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we have
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By the definition of , for and , we obtain
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For , if for some , then , and . If such doesn’t exist, then
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From (2.14), we have
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Then , and .
(ii) If , we have , and hence for each .
(iii) It is easy to see that , which yields that . Then
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Thus
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Since the solution of (2.16) is unique, we get
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and thus
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(iv) Taking , we have . It follows from (ii) that for . Now we only need to prove that satisfies (b) of . Let , be a sequence of finite dimensional invariant subspaces such that , and . Let be the orthogonal projection on and . Then it is easy to see that is locally Lipschitz continuous and for and each . Let be the solution of the following equation
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It is easy to see that uniformly on compact sets for a fixed . For a given compact set and constant , take big enough so that
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Then the proof is completed by choosing and . ∎
We also need the following.
Lemma 2.6**.**
Assume , is invariant and . Then .
Proof.
Since for every , by Lemma 2.1 we have
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∎
Now let us give the proof of Theorem 2.1.
Proof of Theorem 2.1.
Assume for some . By Lemma 2.2, it suffices to prove
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Assume . Since satisfies (P.-S.) and is invariant, is compact and invariant. By the continuity of index, there exists a invariant neighbourhood of such that
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Take such that
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and denote . Then by Lemma 2.6, one has . Now we apply Lemma 2.5 with . Then is invariant, and
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Since , one has . Thus by the definition of , one deduces
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which contradicts (2.18), proving the theorem. ∎
We need the following.
Lemma 2.7**.**
Assume is a dimensional invariant subspace of such that , and is a bounded neighborhood of [math] in . Then
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where is the boundary of relative to .
To prove the lemma, we need the following lemma about acting on .
Lemma 2.8** (See Theorem 5.5 of [12]).**
Let be an action of over such that and let be an open bounded invariant neighbourhood of [math]. If and with
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then .
Now we are going to prove Lemma 2.7.
Proof of Lemma 2.7.
Since is invariant and , it is easy to see that is even. Let be a set of coordinates in such that
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where and
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for , and with . We claim that for each set , one has . Clearly, there exists unitary matrix such that
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For each , denote , where . Let
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Then satisfies (2.4). Assume . Then there exists a mapping
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such that with and
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for . Rewrite such that
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where is a constant and
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Then for any with , , , one has
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Since
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one deduces
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Since not always vanishes, there exists a such that
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for some . Let
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such that for some , , where , for . Then if . It follows from and (2.21) that there must exist a such that the dimension of is less than the dimension of . By Lemma 2.8, there exists a such that . Then and which contradicts (2.20), proving the lemma. ∎
Let denote the vector space spanned by the eigenfunctions corresponding to eigenvalues of in the set
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Denote
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Lemma 2.9**.**
* for every and .*
Proof.
By property (iv) of the index, there exists a small enough so that
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where denotes the neighbourhood of for . We claim that there exists a small enough so that
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If not, for each there exists a such that
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Since is compact, there exists a subsequence of such that for . Taking the limit yields
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This is a contradiction. Let be the orthogonal complement space of . It is easy to see . Since , there exist a finite dimensional invariant space and an equivariant homeomorphism such that
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for all . It follows that
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Hence
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Now we only need to prove .
Take small enough so that
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Since
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we have
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where denotes the neighbourhood of in . As the proof of (2.22), there exists a small enough so that
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Thus
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Let , denote the orthogonal projection on and
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Clearly, is equivariant and . It follows that
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Since
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one has
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By the mapping and monotonicity properties of the index, we have
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Since and is a homeomorphism, is a neighbourhood of [math] in and , where denotes the ball with radius . By Lemma 2.7, we obtain
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proving the lemma. ∎
3 Proof of Theorem 1.1
First we show a property of rotating quasi-periodic functions.
Lemma 3.1**.**
Assume and . Then
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where M_{0}=\min\limits_{1\leq j\leq n}\left\{\big{|}\frac{\theta_{j}+2\iota\pi}{T}\big{|}^{2}\neq 0;\ \iota=-1,\ 0\right\}.
Proof.
Consider the function
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where is defined in (2.5). Then for all , and with . It follows that
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where is the component of and the component of for and . Since
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one has , if for some . Then
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∎
Consider the following functional on :
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It is easy to see that each critical point of on is a -rotating quasi-periodic solution of system (1.1). Clearly, is invariant and we will show that satisfies (P.-S.) condition.
Lemma 3.2**.**
Assume (V1)-(V5) hold. Then satisfies (P.-S.) condition.
Proof.
Assume is a consequence of such that
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for some constant , and
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We will show that has a converging subsequence. For each , one has , where
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By (3.28), for large enough,
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which implies
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By (V4), there exist constants such that
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It follows from Lemma 3.1 and (3) that there exist a constant such that for large enough. Then there exists a constant such that
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By (3.27) and (V4), we have
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for some constant . Then is uniformly bounded. It is easy to see that , and by (V5), is uniformly bounded. Hence is bounded and there exists a subsequence of such that and for and some . By (3.28), for each there exists a , such that for , one has
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It is well known that the operator is compact and we have
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Then for large enough,
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for some constant . Thus there exists a constant such that
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Since for on , one has
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proving the lemma. ∎
Now we give the proof of Theorem 1.1.
Proof of Theorem 1.1.
It follows from (V1) that
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Then for ,
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Denote
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For , we have
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Hence there exist constants and such that
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By Lemma 2.9, . Thus
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Now if we can prove that and for , the proof is completed by Theorem 2.1 and Lemma 2.2. In fact, if , then is a constant and . By (V2), and , which contradicts (3.32). It follows from (V4) that there exists a constant such that
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Then by Lemma 3.1, for we have
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Since for each , one has . Therefore,
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for . It follows that for , proving the theorem. ∎
4 Proof of Theorem 1.2
In this section we give the proof of Theorem 1.2.
Proof of Theorem 1.2.
First we prove that under assumptions (V1), (V2), (V6), (V7), the functional satisfies (P.-S.) condition. It follows from (V6) that there exist constants such that
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Assume is a sequence of such that
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for some constant , and
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Then for large enough,
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and hence
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By (V6), we have
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for some constant . By (4.33), we deduce
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Then
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which implies
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By (V7), (4.35) and (4.36), one has
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for some constants . Let
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It is easy to see and there exist constants such that
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By Lemma 3.1, (4.36) and (4) we have
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for some constants . Since , there exists a constant such that
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The remaining proof is the same as in Theorem 1.1, and we omit it. ∎
Acknowledgment
This work was supported by National Basic Research Program of China (grant No. 2013CB834102), NSFC (grant No. 11571065, 11171132, 11201173), Science and Technology Developing Plan of Jilin Province (No. 20180101220JC), JilinDRC (No. 2017C028-1) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2412018QD036).
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