Periodic solutions of periodically forced non-degenerate systems (Q1112227)

The authors consider the system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations of the form (1.1) \(dx/dt=f(x)+\epsilon F(t,x),\) where \(f\in C^ 2:\cup \subset {\mathbb{R}}^ 2\to {\mathbb{R}}^ 2,\) \(F:{\mathbb{R}}\times \cup \to {\mathbb{R}},\) and \(\epsilon\) is a small parameter, and give some sufficient conditions under which (1.1) has T-periodic solutions branching continuously from u(t) (or from one of its translations) which satisfies the associated non-perturbed system (1.2) \(dx/dt=f(x)\). Here \(\cup\) denotes a given open domain involving the origin. One assumes that \(f(x)=0\) iff \(x=0\) while the function F(t,x) is T-periodic and continuous in t and of class \(C^ 1\) in x. The conditions they drive are expressed in the form of two theorems which involve the principal matrix solution of the following linear system: (1.3) \(dy/dt=(\partial (f_ 1,f_ 2)/\partial (\nu_ 1(t),\nu 2(t)))y.\) Here \(\nu =(\nu_ 1(t),\nu_ 2(t))\) is a nontrivial T-periodic solution of (1.2). An illustrative example shows the application of the result.