Periodic solutions of nonlinear wave equations with general nonlinearities (Q1418022)
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Periodic solutions of nonlinear wave equations with general nonlinearities (English)
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6 January 2004
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A variational principle is proposed to find small amplitude periodic solutions of the semilinear wave equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions \[ u_{tt} - u_{xx} + f(u) = 0, \quad u(t,0) = u(t,\pi) = 0, \] when \(f(0) = f'(0) = 0.\) The corresponding solutions are periodic solutions with a fixed period which branch off the infinite-dimensional null space of the linear part. This variational approach is based upon a variational Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction followed by a delicate mountain pass type argument. Examples dealing with \(f(u) = au^p\) are treated, with \(p\) an integer.
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variational methods
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small amplitude periodic solutions
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semilinear wave equation
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Dirichlet boundary conditions
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Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction
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mountain pass type argument
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