On periodic solutions of ordinary differential equations with discontinuous right-hand side

Abstract

A new version of the method of translation along trajectories, which does not require the uniqueness of the solution of the Cauchy problem, is applied to the proof of the existence theorem for vector-valued periodic solutions of ordinary differential equations of first and second order. This result is applicable to equations and differential inclusions with discontinuous right-hand side. Several applications of the theorems proved in this paper are considered in cases which are not covered by the classical theory of ordinary differential equations with continuous right-hand side and equations with right-hand side satisfying the Caratheodory conditions.