Special Session 54: 

Discrete resonance problems subject to periodic forcing

Stephen Robinson
Wake Forest University
USA
Co-Author(s):    Klaus Schmitt
Abstract:
In this paper, we consider the following discrete nonlinear problem which is subject to a periodic nonlinear forcing term: $$ A u = \lambda u +p(u) + h +\mu \overline{\phi} $$ where $A$ is an $n\times n $ matrix with real components, $p: \R^n\to \R^n$ is a periodic forcing term, $\overline{\phi }$ is an eigenvector of $A^T,$ the transpose of $A$, corresponding to the simple real eigenvalue $\lambda ,$ and $h\in \R^n$ is a vector orthogonal to $\overline{\phi} .$ Conditions on these terms will be provided such that this problem will have infinitely many distinct solutions when $\mu =0.$ The results here are motivated by some recent results for discrete systems and by results obtained for boundary value problems for semilinear elliptic problems at resonance.