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Existence of Periodic Solutions for a Class of Second Order Ordinary Differential Equations

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We provide sufficient conditions for the existence of a periodic solution for a class of second order differential equations of the form \(\ddot{x}+g(x)=\varepsilon f(t, x,\dot{x},\varepsilon )\), where \(\varepsilon \) is a small parameter.

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The second author is partially supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigación grants MTM2016-77278-P (FEDER), the Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca grant 2017SGR1617, and the H2020 European Research Council grant MSCA-RISE-2017-777911.

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  1. Departamento de Matemáticas, UAM-Iztapalapa, 09340, Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Mexico

    Antonio Garcia

  2. Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

    Jaume Llibre

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Garcia, A., Llibre, J. Existence of Periodic Solutions for a Class of Second Order Ordinary Differential Equations. Acta Appl Math 169, 193–197 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10440-019-00295-9

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