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Mathematics and its applications try to make available a simple and accurate approach to handle nonlinear equations. The present paper investigates for the first time the application of the linearizing method to determine both the approximate frequency and displacement amplitude for the third‐order differential equations. The main merit of the linearized method is a collection of simplicity and accuracy for the solution of high‐order nonlinear conservative or non‐conservative oscillators. The current work sheds light on the approximate proposition to the damped third‐order nonlinear differential equations. The fast estimated solution is simulated to the accurate solution gained through the numerical methods. It is significant to conclude that the non‐perturbative method considered here is simpler and easier to apply than the other perturbation methods. This paper enriches some existing literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For a quasi-periodically forced differential equation, response solutions are quasi-periodic ones whose frequency vector coincides with that of the forcing function and they are known to play a fundamental role in the harmonic and synchronizing behaviors of quasi-periodically forced oscillators. These solutions are well-understood in quasi-periodically perturbed nonlinear oscillators either in the presence of large damping or in the non-degenerate cases with small or free damping. In this paper, we consider the existence of response solutions in quasi-periodically perturbed, second order differential equations, including nonlinear oscillators, of the form x ¨ + λ x l = ϵ f (ω t , x , x ˙) , x ∈ R , where λ is a constant, 0 < ϵ ≪ 1 is a small parameter, l > 1 is an integer, ω ∈ R d is a frequency vector, and f : T d × R 2 → R 1 is real analytic and non-degenerate in x up to a given order p ≥ 0 , i.e., [ f (· , 0 , 0) ] = [ ∂ f (· , 0 , 0) ∂ x ] = [ ∂ 2 f (· , 0 , 0) ∂ x 2 ] = ⋯ = [ ∂ p - 1 f (· , 0 , 0) ∂ x p - 1 ] = 0 and [ ∂ p f (· , 0 , 0) ∂ x p ] ≠ 0 , where [ ] denotes the average value of a continuous function on T d . In the case that λ = 0 and f is independent of x ˙ , the existence of response solutions was first shown by Gentile (Ergod Theory Dyn Syst 27:427–457, 2007) when p = 1 . This result was later generalized by Corsi and Gentile (Commun Math Phys 316:489–529, 2012; Ergod Theory Dyn Syst 35:1079–1140, 2015; Nonlinear Differ Equ Appl 24(1):article 3, 2017) to the case that p > 1 is odd. In the case λ ≠ 0 , the existence of response solutions is studied by the authors Si and Yi (Nonlinearity 33(11):6072–6099, 2020) when p = 0 . The present paper is devoted to the study of response solutions of the above quasi-periodically perturbed differential equations for the case λ ≠ 0 by allowing p > 0 . Under the conditions that 0 ≤ p < l / 2 and λ [ ∂ p f (· , 0 , 0) ∂ x p ] > 0 when l - p is even, we obtain a general result which particularly implies the following: (1) If either l is odd and λ < 0 or l is even and [ ∂ p f (· , 0 , 0) ∂ x p ] > 0 , then as ϵ sufficiently small response solutions exist for each ω satisfying a Brjuno-like non-resonant condition; (2) If either l is odd and λ > 0 or l is even and [ ∂ p f (· , 0 , 0) ∂ x p ] < 0 , then there exists an ϵ ∗ > 0 sufficiently small and a Cantor set E ∈ (0 , ϵ ∗) with almost full Lebesgue measure such that response solutions exist for each ϵ ∈ E and ω satisfying a Diophantine condition. Similar results are also obtained in the case λ = ± ϵ which particularly concern the existence of large amplitude response solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]