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Chin. Quart. J. of Math. 2015, 30 (2): 253—266 Periodic Solutions for Some Second-order Differential System with p (t)-Laplacian WANG Qi, LU Di-cheng, MA Qi, DAI Jin (School of Mathematical Sciences, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China) Abstract: In this article, we investigate the existence of periodic solutions for a class of nonautonomous second-order differential systems with p (t)-Laplacian. Some multiplicity results are obtained by using critical point theory, which extend some known results. Key words: differential systems with p (t)-Laplacian; periodic solutions; critical point theory 2000 MR Subject Classification: 34C25, 58E05, 70H05 CLC number: O175.1 Document code: A Article ID: 1002–0462 (2015) 02–0253–14 §1. Introduction In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the study of various mathematical problems with variable exponents. The main references in this field can be found in an overview [1]. For the applications of the p (t)-Laplacian equations, we refer to [2-4]. The existence of solutions(periodic solutions, homoclinic solutions) of p (t)-Laplacian or p-Laplacian problems has been studied by several authors(see e.g. [5-16, 23-30]), where p (t) including p (t) ≡ p . In [8], by using minimax methodss in critical point theory, Wang and Ruan obtained some existence theorems for the following p (t)-Laplacian system d p (t)−2 dt (|u˙ (t)| u˙ (t)) + ∇F (t, u(t)) = 0, (1.1) u(0) − u(T ) = u˙ (0) − u˙ (T ) = 0. In [12], Zhang and Tang obtained some multiplicity