Anti-periodic solutions for evolution equations associated with maximal monotone mappings (Q619826)

The authors consider the existence of anti-periodic solutions for differential inclusions in a real Hilbert space \(H\). The first result concerns the problem \[ x^{\prime }(t)\in -Ax(t)+f(t)\text{ a.e. on }\mathbb{R}, \] \[ x(t)=-x(t+T)\text{ for }t\in \mathbb{R}. \] \(A\) is assumed to be an odd maximal monotone mapping, \(D(A)\) is symmetric and convex, \(f\) is \(L^{2}\) and satisfies \(f(t)=-f(t+T)\) for \(t\in \mathbb{R}\), \(\|g\| \leq M\| x\|\) for all \(x\in D(A)\) and \(g\in Ax\), and \(M>0\) is a constant such that \(MT<2\). The other theorem concerns the problem \[ x^{\prime }(t)\in -Ax(t)+\partial G(x(t))+f(t)\text{ a.e. on }\mathbb{R}, \] \[ x(t)=-x(t+T)\text{ for }t\in \mathbb{R}. \] In addition to the hypotheses of the first result, it is assumed that \(G\) is continuously differentiable and even, \(\partial G\) maps bounded sets to bounded sets, and \(D(A)\) is compactly embedded in \(H\). In the case in which \(A\) is the subdifferential of a lower semi-continuous convex function, the authors obtained similar results as in [\textit{Y. Q. Chen, D. O'Regan} and \textit{J. J. Nieto}, Math. Comput. Modelling 46, No.~9--10, 1183--1190 (2007; Zbl 1142.34313)]. The authors conclude the paper by applying the first of these theorems to a boundary value problem for a partial differential equation.