Multiplicity of critical orbits to nonlinear, strongly indefinite functionals with sign-changing nonlinear part

Abstract

We show an abstract critical point theorem about existence of infinitely many critical orbits to strongly indefinite functionals with sign-changing nonlinear part defined on a dislocation space with a discrete group action. We apply the abstract result to a Schr\"odinger equation $$ -\Delta u + V(x) u = f(u) - \lambda g(u) $$ with $0$ in the spectral gap of the Schr\"odinger operator $-\Delta + V(x)$, that appears in nonlinear optics, as well as to the equations with singular potentials arising from the study of cylindrically symmetric, electromagnetic waves to the system of Maxwell equations.