Positive doubly periodic solutions of nonlinear telegraph equations. (Q1411052)

This interesting paper discusses the existence of (weak) solutions (i.e. understood in the distribution sense) to the nonlinear telegraph equation \[ u_{tt}- u_{x,x}+cu_t= -a(t, x)u+ b(t, x) f (t, x, u), \] \((t, x)\in \mathbb{R}^2\) being positive doubly periodic, i.e. such that \(u(t + 2\pi, x)= u(t, x + 2\pi)= u(t, x)\) on \(\mathbb{R}^2\), where \(a\), \(b\) and \(f\) are continuous, doubly periodic real functions on \(\mathbb{R}^2\) and \(\mathbb{R}^3\), respectively. The approach involves the use of the well-known Krasnoselskij fixed point theorem in cones. The main result concerning the existence is proved under rather mild assumptions allowing the superlinear as well as sublinear growth of the nonlinearity \(f\). An illustrative example ends the paper.