Existence of Periodic Solutions for Higher Order Autonomous Birkhoff Systems

Qualitative methods of ordinary differential equation and Liapunov center theorem were used to study the existence of periodic solutions for higher order autonomous Birkhoff systems. For higher order autonomous Birkhoff systems, the character of the characteristic roots of the Fréchet derivative C was obtained. Furthermore the existence theorem of periodic solutions was obtained by using Liapunov center theorem, and an example was presented to illustrate the results.