Anti-symmetric periodic solutions for the third order differential systems (Q1021795)

The purpose of this paper is to study the existence of anti-periodic solutions for the third order differential system \[ x'''+Ax''+\frac{d}{dt} \nabla F(x)+ G(t,x)=E(t), \] where \(A\) is a real \(n\times n\) matrix, \(F\in C^2(\mathbb{R}^n, \mathbb{R})\), \(\nabla F(x)\) is the gradient with respect to \(x=(x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n)\), \(G\in C(\mathbb{R}^+\times \mathbb{R}^n,\mathbb{R}^n)\), \(E\in C(\mathbb{R}^+,\mathbb{R}^n)\). The authors prove that this system has a solution \(x(t)\) satisfying \(x(t+\pi)=-x(t)\), \(t\in \mathbb{R}^+\).