Let π: E → B be a fiber bundle with fiber having the mod 2 cohomology algebra of a real or a complex projective space and let π’: E’ → B be a vector bundle such that ℤ₂ acts fiber preserving and freely on E and E’-0, where 0 stands for the zero section of the bundle π’: E’ → B. For a fiber preserving ℤ₂-equivariant map f: E → E’, we estimate the cohomological dimension of the zero set $Z_f=x\in E\left|f\right(x)=0$. As an application, we also estimate the cohomological dimension of the ℤ₂-coincidence set $A_f=x\in E\left|f\right(x)=f(T\left(x\right))$ of a fiber preserving...

We shall consider periodic problems for ordinary differential equations of the form $$\left\{\begin{array}{c}{x}^{\text{'}}\left(t\right)=f(t,x\left(t\right)),\hfill \\ x\left(0\right)=x\left(a\right),\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $f:[0,a]\times R^n\to R^n$ satisfies suitable assumptions. To study the above problem we shall follow an approach based on the topological degree theory. Roughly speaking, if on some ball of $R^n$, the topological degree of, associated to (), multivalued Poincaré operator $P$ turns out to be different from zero, then problem () has solutions. Next by using the multivalued version of the classical Liapunov-Krasnoselskǐ guiding potential...

We prove that the Poincaré map ${\phi }_{(0,T)}$ has at least $N(\tilde{h},cl\left(W_0{W}_0^{-}\right))$ fixed points (whose trajectories are contained inside the segment W) where the homeomorphism $\tilde{h}$ is given by the segment W.