Monotonicity and existence of periodic orbits for projected dynamical systems on Hilbert spaces

Abstract

We present here results about the existence of periodic orbits for projected dynamical systems (PDS) under Minty-Browder monotonicity conditions. The results are formulated in the general context of a Hilbert space of arbitrary (finite or infinite) dimension. The existence of periodic orbits for such PDS is deduced by means of nonlinear analysis, using a fixed point approach. It is also shown how occurrence of periodic orbits is intimately related to that of critical points (equilibria) of a PDS in certain cases.