Bifurcations for Hamiltonian systems

Abstract

With the dual variational principle and the saddle point reduction we use the abstract bifurcation theory recently developed by author in previous work to prove many new bifurcation results for solutions of four types of Hamiltonian boundary value problems nonlinearly depending on parameters. The most interesting and important among them are those alternative results which can only be proved with our generalized versions of the famous Rabinowitz's alternative bifurcation theorem.