On the strong oscillatory behavior of all solutions to some second order evolution equations (Q296843)

Summary: Let \(l\) be any positive number. For any non-negative potential \(p\in L^\infty (0, l)\), we show that for any solution \(u\) of \( u_{tt} +u_{xxxx}+ p(x) u = 0 \) in \(\mathbb R \times (0, l)\) with \(u=u_{xx}=0\) on \(\mathbb R \times \{0, l\} \) , and for any form \(\zeta \in (H^2(0, l) \cap H^1_0(0,l))^\prime\), the function \(t\to \langle \zeta, u(t)\rangle\) has a zero in each closed interval \(I\) of \(\mathbb R\) with length \(|I|\geq \frac{\pi} {3} l^2\). A similar result of uniform oscillation property on each interval of length at least equal to \(2l\) is established for all weak solutions of the equation \(u_{tt}-u_{xx}+a(t)u=0\) in \(\mathbb R \times (0,l)\) with \(u=0\) on \(\mathbb R \times \{0,l\} \) where \(a\) is a nonnegative essentially bounded coefficient. These results apply in particular to any finite linear combination of evaluations of the solution \(u\) at arbitrary points of \((0, l)\).