Twice degenerate equations in spaces of vector-valued functions (Q1303599)

The purpose of this paper is to calculate an index at infinity for the following classes of asymptotically linear and asymptotically homogeneous vector fields: \[ Tx= x- A(x+ f(t,x)+ b(t)), \] respectively \[ Tx= x- A(x+ f(t,x)+ q(t, x)). \] Applications to a periodic problems for a system of two nonlinear first-order ODE and to a two-point BVP for a system of two nonlinear second-order ODE are also given.