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Following Part~I, we consider a class of reversible systems and study bifurcations of homoclinic orbits to hyperbolic saddle equilibria. Here we concentrate on the case in which homoclinic orbits are symmetric, so that only one control…

In this paper we consider a semilinear parabolic equation in an infinite cylinder. The spatially varying nonlinearity is such that it connects two (spatially independent) bistable nonlinearities in a compact set in space. We prove that,…

We study the existence of homoclinic type solutions for second order Lagrangian systems of the type $\ddot{q}(t)-q(t)+a(t)\nabla G(q(t))=f(t)$, where $t\in\mathbb{R}$, $q\in\mathbb{R}^n$, $a\colon\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ is a continuous…

In this work we consider a two-dimensional piecewise smooth system, defined in two domains separated by the switching manifold $x=0$. We assume that there exists a piecewise-defined continuous Hamiltonian that is a first integral of the…

We show the existence of homoclinic type solutions of second order Hamiltonian systems with a potential satisfying a relaxed superquadratic growth condition and a forcing term that is sufficiently small in the space of square integrable…

This paper is a continuation of our study of the dynamics of contact Hamiltonian systems in \cite{JY}, but without monotonicity assumption. Due to the complexity of general cases, we focus on the behavior of action minimizing orbits. We…

In the paper, we utilize the recent variational, abstract theorem to show the existence of homoclinic solutions to the Hamiltonian system $$ \dot{z} = J D_z H(z, t), \quad t \in \mathbb{R}, $$ where the Hamiltonian $H : \mathbb{R}^{2N}…

An analytic reversible Hamiltonian system with two degrees of freedom is studied in a neighborhood of its symmetric heteroclinic connection made up of a symmetric saddle-center, a symmetric orientable saddle periodic orbit lying in the same…

We consider a Hamiltonian system which has an elliptic-hyperbolic equilibrium with a homoclinic loop. We identify the set of orbits which are homoclinic to the center manifold of the equilibrium via a Lyapunov- Schmidt reduction procedure.…

This dissertation describes the space of heteroclinic orbits for a class of semilinear parabolic equations, focusing primarily on the case where the nonlinearity is a second degree polynomial with variable coefficients. Along the way, a new…

In this paper, we study the existence of infinitely many periodic solutions for second order Hamiltonian systems $\ddot{u}+\nabla_u V(t,u)=0$, where $V(t, u)$ is either asymptotically quadratic or superquadratic as $|u|\to \infty$.

We prove the existence of at least $cl(M)$ periodic orbits for certain time dependant Hamiltonian systems on the cotangent bundle of an arbitrary compact manifold $M$. These Hamiltonians are not necessarily convex but they satisfy a certain…

This paper concernes with the existence of heteroclinic solutions for the following class of elliptic equations $$ -\Delta{u}+A(\epsilon x, y)V'(u)=0, \quad \mbox{in} \quad \Omega, $$ where $\epsilon >0$, $\Omega=\R \times \D$ is an…

In this paper, we prove existence of symmetric homoclinic orbits for the suspension bridge equation $u""+\beta u" + e^u-1=0$ for all parameter values $\beta \in [0.5,1.9]$. For each $\beta$, a parameterization of the stable manifold is…

We present an extension of the theory known as Lin's method to heteroclinic chains that connect hyperbolic equilibria and hyperbolic periodic orbits. Based on the construction of a so-called Lin orbit, that is, a sequence of continuous…

We establish the existence of homoclinic solutions for suitable systems of nonlocal equations whose forcing term is of gradient type. The elliptic operator under consideration is the fractional Laplacian and the potentials that we take into…

Using variational minimizing methods,we prove the existence of an odd symmetric parabolic orbit for the 2-fixed center problems with weak force type homogeneous potentials.

The existence of hyperbolic orbits is proved for a class of singular Hamiltonian systems with repulsive potentials by taking limit for a sequence of periodic solutions which are the minimizers of variational functional

In this paper we present sufficient conditions for the existence of heteroclinic or homoclinic solutions for second order coupled systems of differential equations on the real line. We point out that it is required only conditions on the…

We prove that certain non-exact magnetic Hamiltonian systems on products of closed hyperbolic surfaces and with a potential function of large oscillation admit non-constant contractible periodic solutions of energy below the Ma\~n\'e…