PERIODIC SOLUTIONS FOR HAMILTONIANSYSTEMS IN A NONCONVEX POTENTIAL WELL

Recently there has been a considerable amount of work on the existence of Tperiodic solutions for Hamiltonian systems with singular potentials, (see [1]—[7],[10], [11], [13], [14]). In this paper we will study the existence of T-periodic solutions for nonconservative second-order dynamical systems

Ultraconvergence for averaging discontinuous finite elements and its applications in Hamiltonian system

This paper discusses the k-degree averaging discontinuous finite element solution for the initial value problem of ordinary differential equations. When k is even, the averaging numerical flux （the average of left and right limits for the discontinuous finite element at nodes） has the optimal-order ultraconvergence 2k ＋ 2. For nanlinear Hamiltonian systems （e.g., SchrSdinger equation and Kepler system） with momentum conservation, the discontinuous finite element methods preserve momentum at nodes. These properties are confirmed by numerical experiments.

STUDIES OF MELNIKOV METHOD AND TRANSVERSAL HOMOCLINIC ORBITS IN THE CIRCULAR PLANAR RESTRICTED THREE－BODY PROBLEM

Non-Hamiltonian systems containing degenerate fixed points obtained from twodegrees of freedom near-integrable Hamiltonian systems through non-canonicaltransformations are dealt with in this paper. Two criteria .for determining theexistence of transversal homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits are presented. By exploitingthese criteria the existence of the transversal homoclinic orbits and so, of thetransversal homoclinic tangle .phenomenon in the near-integrable circular planarrestricted three-body problem with sufficiently small mass ratio of the two primaries isproven. Under some assumptions, the existence of the transversal heleroclinic orbits isproven. The global qualitative phase diagram is also illustrated.

Transient stochastic response of quasi integerable Hamiltonian systems

The approximate transient response of quasi in- tegrable Hamiltonian systems under Gaussian white noise excitations is investigated. First, the averaged It6 equa- tions for independent motion integrals and the associated Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov （FPK） equation governing the transient probability density of independent motion integrals of the system are derived by applying the stochastic averag- ing method for quasi integrable Hamiltonian systems. Then, approximate solution of the transient probability density of independent motion integrals is obtained by applying the Galerkin method to solve the FPK equation. The approxi- mate transient solution is expressed as a series in terms of properly selected base functions with time-dependent coeffi- cients. The transient probability densities of displacements and velocities can be derived from that of independent mo- tion integrals. Three examples are given to illustrate the ap- plication of the proposed procedure. It is shown that the re- suits for the three examples obtained by using the proposed procedure agree well with those from Monte Carlo simula- tion of the original systems.

Existence of solutions for sub-linear or super-linear operator equations

We investigate solutions to superlinear or sublinear operator equations and obtain some abstract existence results by minimax methods. These results apply to superlinear or sublinear Hamiltonian systems satisfying several boundary value conditions including Sturm-Liouville boundary value conditions and generalized periodic boundary value conditions, and yield some new theorems concerning existence of solutions or nontrivial solutions. In particular, some famous results about periodic solutions to superlinear or sublinear Hamiltonian systems by Rabinowitz or Benci and Rabinowitz are special cases of the theorems.