Singular perturbed problems in ordinary differential equations (Q1191833)

The author uses his recent version of the generalized implicit theorem of Nash and Moser to solve perturbed periodic problems for equations like (1) \(u'+e\cdot f(u,u',u'',u''',t)=0\), in which perturbations contain two order higher derivatives than unperturbed equations. A typical result is: If a smooth \(f\) is \(2\pi\)-periodic in \(t\), \(\partial f/\partial u'''\leq 0\) and if there exist numbers \(a>b\) such that \[ \int_ 0^{2\pi}f(a,0,0,0,t)dt\cdot\int_ 0^{2\pi}f(b,0,0,0,t)dt<0, \] then (1) possesses at least one \(2\pi\)-periodic solution, for each small constant \(\varepsilon>0\). Generalizations for higher-dimensional systems are given as well.