A continuation lemma and its applications to periodic solutions of Rayleigh differential equations with subquadratic potential conditions (Q641669)

Using a variant of a continuation lemma proved in [\textit{P. Omari} and \textit{G. Villari}, Result. Math. 14, No. 1--2, 156--173 (1988; Zbl 0661.34034)], the authors get the existence of periodic solutions of the Rayleigh equation assuming that the damping term is sublinear at infinity and the restoring force satisfies suitable sign and nonresonance conditions with respect to the first nontrivial branch of the periodic Fučik spectrum.