Weakly coupled oscillators and topological degree (Q2384456)

The paper studies weakly coupled periodically perturbed ordinary differential equations of the form \[ \frac{dx}{dt}=\varepsilon f(x,y,t,\varepsilon), \] \[ \frac{dy}{dt}=g(x,y)+\varepsilon h(x,y,t,\varepsilon), \] where \(x\in \mathbb R^n\), \(y\in \mathbb R^m\), \(f,g,h\) are periodic in \(t\), and \(\varepsilon\) is a small parameter. The main assumption is that the system \(y'=g(x,y)\) has periodic solutions for any \(x\in\Omega\subset \mathbb R^n\). By using the topological degree of Brouwer for mappings along with averaging method, the existence of periodic solutions is studied.