Existence of solutions for a nonlinear wave equation (Q2464596)

The goal of the authors is to prove existence of strong solutions by introducing a so-called dual variational method for a certain class of periodic-Dirichlet problems for a scalar nonlinear wave equation \[ u_{tt}(t, x)- u_{xx}(t, x)+ F_u(t, x,u(t, x))= 0, \] \[ \begin{aligned} u(t+ T,x)= u(t, x)&\quad\text{for }(t, x)\in\mathbb R\times \Omega,\\ u(t, 0)= u(t,\pi)= 0&\quad\text{for }t\in\mathbb R, \end{aligned} \] where \(\Omega= (0,\pi)\), \(F_u\) denotes the derivative with respect to the third variable of the function \(F: \mathbb R\times \Omega\times\mathbb R\to \mathbb R\) which is convex and continuously differentiable with respect to the third variable.