# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

2011, 16(1): 409-421. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2011.16.409

## Unboundedness of solutions for perturbed asymmetric oscillators

 1 School of Mathematical Sciences and LPMC, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China

Received  February 2010 Revised  August 2010 Published  April 2011

In this paper, we consider the existence of unbounded solutions and periodic solutions for the perturbed asymmetric oscillator with damping

$x'' + f(x )x' + ax^+ - bx^-$ $+ g(x)=p(t),$

where $x^+ =\max\{x,0\}, x^-$ $=\max\{-x,0\}$, $a$ and $b$ are two positive constants, $f(x)$ is a continuous function and $p(t)$ is a $2\pi$-periodic continuous function, $g(x)$ is locally Lipschitz continuous and bounded. We discuss the existence of periodic solutions and unbounded solutions under two classes of conditions: the resonance case $\frac{1}{\sqrt{a}}+\frac{1}{\sqrt{b}}\in Q$ and the nonresonance case $\frac{1}{\sqrt{a}}+\frac{1}{\sqrt{b}} \notin Q$. Unlike many existing results in the literature where the function $g(x)$ is required to have asymptotic limits at infinity, our main results here allow $g(x)$ be oscillatory without asymptotic limits.

Citation: Lixia Wang, Shiwang Ma. Unboundedness of solutions for perturbed asymmetric oscillators. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2011, 16 (1) : 409-421. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2011.16.409
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