# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

January  2013, 33(1): 381-389. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.381

## Periodic solutions of first order systems

 1 Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States

Received  August 2011 Revised  January 2012 Published  September 2012

Let $f\in C(% %TCIMACRO{\U{211d} }% %BeginExpansion \mathbb{R} %EndExpansion ^{m},% %TCIMACRO{\U{211d} }% %BeginExpansion \mathbb{R} %EndExpansion ^{m})$ and $p\in C([0,T],% %TCIMACRO{\U{211d} }% %BeginExpansion \mathbb{R} %EndExpansion ^{m})$ be continuous functions. We consider the $T$ periodic boundary value problem (*) $u^{\prime}(t)=f(u(t))+p(t),$ $u(0)=u(T).$ It is shown that when $f$ is a coercive gradient function, or the bounded perturbation of a coercive gradient function, and the Brouwer degree $d_{B}(f,B(0,r),0)\neq0$ for large $r$, there is a solution for all $p.$ A result for bounded $f$ is also obtained.
Citation: J. R. Ward. Periodic solutions of first order systems. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2013, 33 (1) : 381-389. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.381
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