Periodic Solutions in Slowly Varying Discontinuous Differential Equations: A Non-Generic Case.

We derive Melnikov type conditions for the persistence of periodic solutions in perturbed slowly varying discontinuous differential equations. In contrast to Battelli and Fečkan (Mathematics 9(19):2449, 2021) we assume that the unperturbed (frozen) equation has a family of periodic solutions depending on some parameters. The result of this paper are motivated by and extend a result in Wiggins and Holmes (SIAM J Math Anal 18:592–611, 1987) where the authors considered a two dimensional hamiltonian family of smooth systems depending on a scalar variable which is the solution of a singularly perturbed equation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]