Multiplicity results for periodic solutions to delay differential equations via critical point theory (Q2576183)

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    Multiplicity results for periodic solutions to delay differential equations via critical point theory (English)
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    8 December 2005
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    Consider the system of delay differential equations \[ x'(t)=-f(x(t-r)), \tag{*} \] where \(x\in \mathbb R^n\), \(f\in C(\mathbb R^n,\mathbb R^n)\), and \(r>0\) is a given constant. The authors give a lower bound for the number of nontrivial periodic solutions with period \(4r\). First, a variational structure for (*) with periodic boundary value condition is established. It is shown that under some suitable assumptions, the existence of \(4r\)-periodic solutions \(x(t)\) to (*) satisfying \(x(t+2r)=-x(t)\) is equivalent to the existence of critical points of the variational functional. Then, the main result is obtained by using the \(\mathbb Z_2\)-geometrical index theory and related pseudo-index theory.
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    delay differential equations
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    multiple periodic solutions
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    critical point theory
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    pseudo-index
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