Time-periodic weak solutions (Q920292)

Consider the equation \[ \frac{d}{dt}(\frac{d}{dt}u,v)+\delta (\frac{d}{dt}u,b)+ab(u,v)+\beta a(u,v)+(G(u),v)=(h,v), \] where ( \(\cdot, \cdot)\) is the inner product in a Hilbert space H, b(u,v),a(u,v) are given forms on the subspaces \(U\subset W\), respectively, of H; \(\delta >0\), \(\alpha\geq 0\), \(\beta\geq 0\), are constants and \(\alpha +\beta >0\); G is the Gateaux derivative of a convex functional J: \(V\subset H\to [0,\infty)\), for \(V=U\), when \(\alpha >0\), and \(V=W\), when \(\alpha =0\); v is a test function in V. The author studies the existence of a time- periodic solution u(t) for the above equation. Application to nonlinear initial boundary value problems in bounded domains in \({\mathbb{R}}^ n\) is given. The paper can be considered as a continuation of the author's papers in [Appl. Anal. 24, 13-26 (1987; Zbl 0584.34042), Nonlinear Anal., Theory Methods Appl. 11, 125-137 (1987; Zbl 0613.34013)].