Existence of periodic solutions for a class of first order delay differential equations dealing with vectors (Q972404)

By the weak linking theorem and the local linking theorem, we study the existence of periodic solutions for the following delay non-autonomous systems \[ u(t)+A(t)u(t)+\mu f(t,u(t-r))=0\tag{1} \] where \(r>0\), \(0\neq \mu\in \mathbb{R}\), \(f\in C(\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}^n,\mathbb{R}^n)\) satisfies \(f(t+r,x)=f(t,x)\) for all \(x\in \mathbb{R}^n\), and \(A(t)=(a_{ij}(t))_{n\times n}\) is an anti-symmetric matrix-valued function with \(a_{ij}(t)\in C(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R})\) which is \(r\)-periodic in \(t\) for all \(i,j=1,2,\dots,n\). Based on some variational principle some existence theorems of \(4r\)-periodic solutions of (1) are obtained.