Periodic orbits of radially symmetric Keplerian-like systems: a topological degree approach

We are concerned with non-autonomous radially symmetric systems with a singularity, which are T -periodic in time. By the use of topological degree theory, we prove the existence of large-amplitude periodic solutions whose minimal period is an integer multiple of T . Precise estimates are then given in the case of Keplerian-like systems, showing some resemblance between the orbits of those solutions and the circular orbits of the corresponding classical autonomous system.