Periodic solutions of differential-delay equations with more than one delay (Q1102431)

This paper deals with the existence of nontrivial periodic solutions of differential-delay equations of the form \(x'(t)=-\alpha \sum^{N}_{i=0}\lambda_ if(x(t-p_ i)).\) The method of proof involves techniques which have been used to study differential-delay equations with a single delay and to show how these techniques can be generalized. These results also imply a nonuniqueness result for so- called ``slowly oscillating'' periodic solutions of the equation \(x'(t)=- \alpha \sum^{N}_{i=1}f(x(t-i))\) studied by other authors.