Keywords
critical point
variational methods
mountain pass theorem
genus.
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In this paper we are concerned with the following damped vibration problem
Â
where ,  with  and ,  is -periodic in  such that  is a -periodic, positive definite symmetric matrix and  satisfies the global Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition or is subquadratic at infinity. By use of the Mountain Pass Theorem or the genus properties in the critical theory, we establish some new criteria to guarantee the existence and multiplicity of periodic solutions. Recent results in the literature are generalized and significantly improved.References
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