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Ann . of Diff . E s. 28 :1(2012), 32-37 MULTIPLE PERIODIC SOLUTIONS TO SECOND ORDER FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION WITH INFINITE DELAY ∗ † Lili Gao‡ (D ept. of M ath . and Phys cs, B engbu College, B eng bu 233 000, A nhu ) Lianglong Wang (S ch ool of Math . an d Comp ut ng Sc ence, A nhu Un vers ty, H ef e 23 0039) Abstra t T his p ap er is conce rned w it h t he existence of p ositive pe rio dic so lutio ns to a secon d order funct io nal d iff erent ial equat ion w ith infinite delay. Un der the appropriate co ndit ions , som e existence an d mu lt iplicity of positive period ic so lut ions are derived by an abstract fi xe d-po int the orem . Keywor ds functio nal diffe rent ial equations ; po sitive p erio dic solutio ns; fixed po int t heorem 20 00 Mathematics S bject C lassification 34 C25; 34 13 1 Introdu tion Existe nce and multiplicity of p eriodic solutions to fu nction al diffe rential equ ation s are of great inte rest in mathem atics and its app lic ation s to the model of variou s p ractical p roble ms. [1] considered autonom ous m ode ls with fin ite delay s. To our k nowledge, most re su lts on the ex iste nce of p eriodic solutions of fu nction al diffe- rential e quation s are con ce rne d with first order fun ctional differe ntial equ ations with fi n ite de lays, and these ex iste nce results are u sually obtaine d by the techn iq ue of bifurc ation ([11]), topology de gree ([12]) or theory of monotone sem ifl ows ([2,5-7]). Recently, m any authors h ave paid atte ntion to the app lic ation s of the ory of fix ed-p oints to p eriodic solutions and b ou nd ary value proble ms, se e