Abstract
The paper computes the Brouwer degree of some classes of homogeneous polynomials defined on quaternions and applies the results, together with a continuation theorem of coincidence degree theory, to the existence and multiplicity of periodic solutions of a class of systems of quaternionic valued ordinary differential equations.
This article is part of the theme issue ‘Topological degree and fixed point theories in differential and difference equations’.
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