Periodic solutions for a class of new superquadratic second order Hamiltonian systems

A new superquadratic growth condition is introduced, which is an extension of the well-known superquadratic growth condition due to P.H. Rabinowitz and the nonquadratic growth condition due to Gui-Hua Fei. An existence theorem is obtained for periodic solutions of a class of new superquadratic second order Hamiltonian systems by the minimax methods in critical point theory, specially, a local linking theorem.