Existence of subharmonic periodic solutions to a class of second-order non-autonomous neutral functional differential equations (Q417143)

Summary: By introducing subdifferentiability of the lower semicontinuous convex function \(\varphi(x(t), x(t - \tau))\) and its conjugate function, as well as critical point theory and operator equation theory, we obtain the existence of multiple subharmonic periodic solutions to the following second-order nonlinear nonautonomous neutral nonlinear functional differential equation \[ x''(t) + x'' (t - 2\tau) + f(t, x(t), x(t - \tau), x(t - 2\tau)) = 0, ~x(0) = 0. \]