Periodic solutions of semilinear Duffing equations with impulsive effects

Abstract

In this paper we are concerned with the existence of periodic solutions for semilinear Duffing equations with impulsive effects. Firstly for the autonomous one, basing on Poincar\'{e}-Birkhoff twist theorem, we prove the existence of infinitely many periodic solutions. Secondly, as for the nonautonomous case, the impulse brings us great challenges for the study, and there are only finitely many periodic solutions, which is quite different from the corresponding equation without impulses. Here, taking the autonomous one as an auxiliary equation, we find the relation between these two equations and then obtain the result also by Poincar\'{e}-Birkhoff twist theorem.