摘要

By using the Mountain Pass Theorem and the Symmetric Mountain Pass Theorem, we establish some existence criteria to guarantee that the second-order Hamiltonian system u(t) - a(t)vertical bar u(t)vertical bar(p-2)u(t) + del W (t, u(t)) = 0 has at least one or infinitely many homoclinic orbits, where t is an element of R. u is an element of R(N), a is an element of C(R, R) and W is an element of C(1) (R x R(N), R) are not periodic in t. Our conditions on the potential W(t, x) are rather relaxed.