Existence and uniqueness of strong and classical solutions of inhomogeneous hyperbolic differential equations in Hilbert space (Q303853)

The author, writing in German, considers the inhomogeneous hyperbolic differential equation \[ u'(t)+A(t)+f(t)=0\; (t_1<t<t_2),\quad u(t_1)=\varphi , \] on a general Hilbert space. He proves, under suitable assumptions on the family \(\{A(t):t_1\leq t\leq t_2\}\), that there exists a unique strong solution if the inhomogeneity \(f\) is of bounded variation, and that there exists a unique classical solution if \(f\) in addition is continuous. This shows, in particular, that in order to prove existence and uniqueness of classical solutions it is not necessary, as was previously the case, to assume that \(f\) is Lipschitz continuous.