Opuscula Mathematica (Jan 2014)

On the existence of positive periodic solutions for totally nonlinear neutral differential equations of the second-order with functional delay

  • Emmanuel K. Essel,
  • Ernest Yankson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2014.34.3.469
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 34, no. 3
pp. 469 – 481

Abstract

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We prove that the totally nonlinear second-order neutral differential equation \[\frac{d^2}{dt^2}x(t)+p(t)\frac{d}{dt}x(t)+q(t)h(x(t))\] \[=\frac{d}{dt}c(t,x(t-\tau(t)))+f(t,\rho(x(t)),g(x(t-\tau(t))))\] has positive periodic solutions by employing the Krasnoselskii-Burton hybrid fixed point theorem.

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