Response solutions for elliptic-hyperbolic equations with nonlinearities and periodic external forces (Q6583645)

In this paper, the authors consider a nonlinear model with variable coefficients as follows: \N\[\N a(x)u_{tt}-(p(x)u_x)_x+f(x,u)=\varepsilon g(\omega t,x). \tag{1}\N\]\NThey allow the coefficient \(a\) in equation (1) to change its sign, resulting in an elliptic equation when \(a<0\) and a hyperbolic equation when \(a>0\). Such a model emerges in a diverse range of real-world physical phenomena, including the dynamics of plasmas under the influence of small-amplitude electro-magnetic waves with phase velocities significantly greater than thermal velocities, the behavior of light near a caustic and so on. Based on the spectral theory of the generalized Sturm-Liouville problem, they apply the Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction together with the Nash-Moser iteration to establish the existence of response solutions.