Existence of periodic solutions of semilinear parabolic equations and the method of upper and lower solutions (Q795226)

In this paper the authors study the existence of periodic solutions of semilinear parabolic equations with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. For simplicity they consider the problem in one space variable: \(u_ t-u_{xx}=f(t,x,u,u_ x),\quad u(0,x)=u(2\pi,x), u_ x(t,0)=u_ x(t,1)=0.\) Under some conditions for f, with methods used in other papers of the same authors, the existence of a solution u such that \(\alpha(t,x)\leq u(t,x)\leq \beta(t,x)\) and \(| u_ x(t,x)| \leq N\) (where N depends only on \(\alpha\), \(\beta\) and a function of a Nagumo condition) is proved.