The purpose of this paper is to study the existence of periodic solutions for the non-autonomous second order Hamiltonian system $$\left\{\begin{array}{c}\ddot{u}\left(t\right)=\nabla F(t,u\left(t\right)),\text{a.e.}t\in [0,T],\hfill \\ u\left(0\right)-u\left(T\right)=\dot{u}\left(0\right)-\dot{u}\left(T\right)=0.\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ Some new existence theorems are obtained by the least action principle.

This paper deals with the system of functional-differential equations $$\frac{dx\left(t\right)}{dt}=p\left(x\right)\left(t\right)+q\left(t\right),$$ where $p:C_{\omega }\left(R^n\right)\to L_{\omega }\left(R^n\right)$ is a linear bounded operator, $q\in L_{\omega }\left(R^n\right)$, $\omega >0$ and $C_{\omega }\left(R^n\right)$ and $L_{\omega }\left(R^n\right)$ are spaces of $n$-dimensional $\omega$-periodic vector functions with continuous and integrable on $[0,\omega ]$ components, respectively. Conditions which guarantee the existence of a unique $\omega$-periodic solution and continuous dependence of that solution on the right hand side of the system considered are established.

The differential equation of the form ${\left(q\left(t\right)k\left(u\right){\left(u^{\text{'}}\right)}^a\right)}^{\text{'}}=f\left(t\right)h\left(u\right)u^{\text{'}}$, a ∈ (0,∞), is considered and solutions u with u(0) = 0 and (u(t))² + (u’(t))² > 0 on (0,∞) are studied. Theorems about existence, uniqueness, boundedness and dependence of solutions on a parameter are given.