Periodic boundary value problems for \(n\)th-order ordinary differential equations with \(p\)-Laplacian (Q2569970)

By means of Mawhin's coincidence degree theory, sufficient conditions are obtained for the existence of at least one periodic solution to the nonlinear ordinary differential equation of order \(n\) with \(p\)-Laplacian \[ [\phi(x^{(n-1)})]'= f(t, x(t), x'(t),\dots, x^{(n-1)}(t)),\quad t\in (0,T). \] Here, \(n\geq 2\), the function \(f\) is continuous, \(\phi(x)= |x|^{p-2} x\) for \(x\neq 0\) and \(\phi(0)= 0\) with constant \(p> 1\). In particular, the right-hand side \(f\) may be a polynomial with degree of some variable larger than 1.