Positive periodic solution for a nonautonomous delay differential equation (Q1879138)

By means of Krasnoselskii's fixed-point theorem, this paper explores the existence of one or multiple positive periodic solutions of nonautonomous differential equations with multiple time lags of the form \[ y'(t)=-a(t)y(t)+f(t,y(t-\tau_1(t)),\dots,y(t-\tau_n(t))) \] and \[ y'(t)=a(t)y(t)-f(t,y(t-\tau_1(t)),\dots,y(t-\tau_n(t))), \] where \(a\in C(\mathbb{R},[0,\infty)),\) \(a(t)\neq 0,\) \(a(t+T)=a(t),\) \(f\in C(\mathbb{R}\times [0,\infty)^n,[0,\infty)),\) \(f(t+T, u_1,\dots,u_n)=f(t,u_1,\dots,u_n),\) \(\tau_i\in C(\mathbb{R}, [0,\infty)),\) \(\tau_i(t+T)=\tau_i(t),\) \(1\leq i\leq n,\) \(T>0\) is a fixed constant. Several interesting sufficient criteria are established.