International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 22 (1999), Issue 2, Pages 281-311
doi:10.1155/S0161171299222818
Global existence and boundedness for quasi-variational systems
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli studi di Parma, Via M. D'Azeglio 85/A , Parma 43100, Italy
Received 12 February 1997
Copyright © 1999 Giancarlo Cantarelli. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
We consider quasi-variational ordinary differential systems, which
may be considered as the motion law for holonomic mechanical systems. Even when the potential energy of the system is not bounded from below, by constructing appropriate Liapunov functions and using the comparison method, we obtain sufficient conditions for global existence of solutions in the future and for their partial boundedness.