Genericity of the multibump dynamics for almost periodic Duffing-like systems

Citation
F. Alessio et al., Genericity of the multibump dynamics for almost periodic Duffing-like systems, P RS EDIN A, 129, 1999, pp. 885-901
Citations number
44
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematics
Journal title
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH SECTION A-MATHEMATICS
ISSN journal
03082105 → ACNP
Volume
129
Year of publication
1999
Part
5
Pages
885 - 901
Database
ISI
SICI code
0308-2105(1999)129:<885:GOTMDF>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
In this paper we consider 'slowly' oscillating perturbations of almost peri odic Duffing-like systems, i.e. systems of the form (u) double over dot = u - (a(t) + alpha(omega t))W'(u), t is an element of R, u is an element of R -N, where W is an element of C-2N(R-N, R) is superquadratic and a and alpha are positive and almost periodic. By variational methods, we prove that if omega > 0 is small enough, then the system admits a multibump dynamics. As a consequence we get that the system (u) double over dot = u - a(t)W'(u), t is an element of R, u is an element of R-N, admits multibump solutions wh enever a belongs to an open dense subset of the set of positive almost peri odic continuous functions.