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Global bifurcation and spatio-temporal patterns of periodic solutions (with prescribed period) to second order reversible equivariant autonomous systems with commensurate delays are studied using the Brouwer/Leray–Schauder O (2) × Γ × ℤ 2 -equivariant degree theory. Here, O (2) is related to the reversal symmetry combined with the autonomous form of the system, Γ reflects extra spacial symmetries of the system, and ℤ 2 is related to the oddness of the right-hand side. Abstract results are supported by a concrete example with Γ = D 6 — the dihedral group of order 12. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we study a class of nonlinear differential equations with multiple distributed delays. We reduced the problem of search for periodic solutions of the distributed delay differential equations to that of finding zeros of an operator on some Banach space. Utilizing the equivariant degree theory, we obtain some sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of multiplicity of periodic solutions. Also, we give some information about the symmetry of the periodic solutions. At last, we give an example to illustrate our result. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]