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Periodic motions of conservative systems with singular potentials

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The existence of closed orbits with prescribed energy for second order Hamiltonian Systems with singular potentials is studied.

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  1. Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza Cavalieri, 56100, Pisa, Italy

    Antonio Ambrosetti

  2. Mathematik, ETH-Zentrum, CH-8092, Zürich, Switzerland

    Michael Struwe

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The first author was supported by M.U.R.S.T.

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Ambrosetti, A., Struwe, M. Periodic motions of conservative systems with singular potentials. NoDEA 1, 179–202 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01193951

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