Periodic Solutions for a Higher Order Nonlinear Neutral Functional Differential Equation

In this paper, a higher order nonlinear neutral functional differential equation with distributed delay is studied by using the continuation theorem of coincidence degree theory. Some new results on the existence of periodic solutions are obtained.

• Yanling Zhu

• Neutral functional differential equation
• higher order
• periodic solution
• coincidence degree theory.

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