In this paper, we deal with the existence of periodic solutions of the $p\left(t\right)$-Laplacian Hamiltonian system $$\left\{\begin{array}{c}{\displaystyle \frac{\mathrm{d}}{\mathrm{d}t}}\left(\right|\dot{u}\left(t\right){|}^{p\left(t\right)-2}\dot{u}\left(t\right))=\nabla F(t,u\left(t\right))\text{a.e.}t\in [0,T],\hfill \\ u\left(0\right)-u\left(T\right)=\dot{u}\left(0\right)-\dot{u}\left(T\right)=0.\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ Some new existence theorems are obtained by using the least action principle and minimax methods in critical point theory, and our results generalize and improve some existence theorems.

The purpose of this paper is to study the existence and multiplicity of a periodic solution for the non-autonomous second-order system $$\begin{array}{c}\frac{\mathrm{d}}{\mathrm{d}t}\left(\right|\dot{u}\left(t\right){|}^{p-2}\dot{u}\left(t\right))=\nabla F(t,u\left(t\right)),\text{a.e.}t\in [0,T],\\ u\left(0\right)-u\left(T\right)=\dot{u}\left(0\right)-\dot{u}\left(T\right)=0,\\ \Delta {\dot{u}}^i\left(t_j\right)={\dot{u}}^i\left(t_j^{+}\right)-{\dot{u}}^i\left(t_j^{-}\right)=I_{ij}\left(u^i\left(t_j\right)\right),i=1,2,\cdots ,N;j=1,2,\cdots ,m.\end{array}$$ By using the least action principle and the saddle point theorem, some new existence theorems are obtained for second-order $p$-Laplacian systems with or without impulse under weak sublinear growth conditions, improving some existing results in the literature.

By using the least action principle and minimax methods in critical point theory, some existence theorems for periodic solutions of second order Hamiltonian systems are obtained.