The number of bifurcation points of a periodic ordinary differential equation with cubic nonlinearities (Q2763773)

The authors study the number of critical values and simple bifurcation points of the scalar \(T\)-periodic parametric differential equation NEWLINE\[NEWLINE x' = f(t, x) + \lambda x, NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(f\) is a continuous function which is \(T\)-periodic in \(t\), coercive in \(x\) and has cubic nonlinearities in \(x\). They show that under mild assumptions on the nonlinearity \(f\) there are at most three \(T\)-periodic solutions to the system, and that their characteristic multipliers lie on alternating sides of \(1\).