ON PERIODIC SOLUTIONS IN SYSTEMS OF HIGH ORDER DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

S. J. Skar

Department of Mathematics

Oklahoma State University

Stillwater, Oklahoma

R. K. Miller

Department of Mathematics

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa

A. N. Michel

Department of Electrical Engineering

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa

DOI: 10.1201/9781003420026-24

1. INTRODUCTION AND NOTATION

In this paper we establish conditions which ensure the existence or the nonexistence of periodic motions in complex autonomous dynamical systems. We consider those types of systems which can be viewed as an interconnection of several simpler subsytems. Our results use the describing function method (a Galerkin or harmonic balance procedure, see [3]) and answer the following question: ...

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