On the genericity of the multiplicity results for forced oscillations on compact manifolds (Q1964791)

The authors present a perturbative result on the existence of periodic solutions to \[ \ddot{x}_{\pi} =g(x)+f(t,x,\dot{x}). \] This equation is defined on a compact manifold \(M\subset {\mathbb{R}}^k\), \(\ddot{x}_{\pi}\) denotes the tangential acceleration, \(g\) is a vector field on \(M\) of class \(C^r\), \(r\geq 1\), and \(f\) is continuous and periodic in time. For generic \(g\) and small \(f\) they conclude that the equation has at least \(|\chi (M)|\) periodic solutions. This is related to the Poincaré-Hopf theorem. When \(g\) is a gradient vector field the result can be sharpened. This follows from Morse inequalities.