## Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics

### HOMOCLINIC SOLUTIONS FOR A CLASS OF NONLINEAR SECOND-ORDER DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH TIME-VARYING DELAYS

#### Abstract

In this paper, by using Mawhin's continuation theorem of coincidence degree theory, we obtain some sufficient conditions for the existence of homoclinic solutions for a class of nonlinear second-order differential equations with time-varying delays. Moreover, we give an example to illustrate the feasibility of obtained results. Our results are completely new.

#### Article information

Source
Taiwanese J. Math., Volume 17, Number 6 (2013), 2149-2161.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 10 July 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.twjm/1499706290

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.11650/tjm.17.2013.3198

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3141879

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1288.34058

#### Citation

Li, Yongkun; Yang, Li. HOMOCLINIC SOLUTIONS FOR A CLASS OF NONLINEAR SECOND-ORDER DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH TIME-VARYING DELAYS. Taiwanese J. Math. 17 (2013), no. 6, 2149--2161. doi:10.11650/tjm.17.2013.3198. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.twjm/1499706290

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