2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 34C07, secondary 34C08.We obtain an upper bound for the number of zeros of the Abelian integral.The work was partially supported by contract No 15/09.05.2002 with the Shoumen University “K. Preslavski”, Shoumen, Bulgaria.

A bifurcation problem for variational inequalities $$U\left(t\right)\in K,(\dot{U}\left(t\right)-B_{\lambda }U\left(t\right)-G(\lambda ,U\left(t\right)),Z-U\left(t\right))\ge 0\text{for}\text{all}Z\in K,\text{a.a.}t\ge 0$$ is studied, where $K$ is a closed convex cone in ${ℝ}^{\kappa }$, $\kappa \ge 3$, $B_{\lambda }$ is a $\kappa \times \kappa$ matrix, $G$ is a small perturbation, $\lambda$ a real parameter. The main goal of the paper is to simplify the assumptions of the abstract results concerning the existence of a bifurcation of periodic solutions developed in the previous paper and to give examples in more than three dimensional case.