Existence and multiplicity results for nonlinear nonautonomous second-order systems Original Research Article

In this paper we consider nonlinear periodic systems driven by the ordinary pp-Laplacian and having a nonsmooth potential function. Under minimal and natural hypotheses on the nonsmooth potential and using variational methods based on the nonsmooth critical point theory we prove four existence theorems and a multiplicity theorem. We conclude the paper with an existence theorem for the scalar problem, in which the energy functional is indefinite (i.e. it is unbounded both above and below).