TY - JOUR ID - Yankson2012 LB - Yankson2012 AU - Yankson, Ernest TI - Existence of periodic solutions for totally nonlinear neutral differential equations with functional delay ST - Existence of periodic solutions for totally nonlinear neutral differential equations with functional delay JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2012 VL - 32 IS - 3 SP - 617 EP - 627 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2012.32.3.617 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2012.32.3.617 AB - We use a variant of Krasnoselskii's fixed point theorem by T. A. Burton to show that the nonlinear neutral differential equation with functional delay \[x'(t) = -a(t)h(x(t)) +c(t)x'(t-g(t)) + q(t,x(t) x(t-g(t)))\] has a periodic solution. KW - fixed point KW - large contraction KW - periodic solution KW - totally nonlinear neutral equation SN - 1232-9274 ER -