Existence of positive periodic solutions of first order neutral differential equations with variable coefficients (Q901011)

The aim of this paper is to study the existence of positive \(\omega\)-periodic solutions for first order neutral differential equations of the form \[ \left[x(t)-P(t)\,x(t-\tau)\right]'=-Q(t)\,x(t)+f(t,x(t-\tau))\,, \] where \(Q\in C({\mathbb R},(0,\infty))\), \(P\in C^1({\mathbb R},{\mathbb R})\), \(f\in C({\mathbb R}\times {\mathbb R},{\mathbb R})\), \(\tau>0\), \(P\), \(Q\) are \(\omega\)-periodic functions, and \(f\) is \(\omega\)-periodic with respect to the first variable. The author applies Krasnoselskii's fixed point theorem to obtain some results on the existence of positive \(\omega\)-periodic solutions for this kind of equations, and a simple example illustrates one of the theorems.