scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1285788

The paper deals with equations of the general form \[ k(x,t)u_{tt} - \sum_{i,j=1}^n \bigl(a_{ij}(x,t)u_{x_i}\bigr)_{x_j} + a(x,t)u_t + b(x,t)u = f(x,t) \] in the layer \(\Pi_T=\mathbb R^n\times (0,T)\). The coefficients of the equation are assumed sufficiently smooth and bounded together with their all derivatives. The form \(a_{ij}\xi_i\xi_j\) is positive for all variables \((x,t)\in \Pi_T\) and arbitrary \(\xi\in\mathbb R^n\), \(a_{ij} = a_{ji}\) for all \(i, j = 1,\dots, n\). The function \(k(x,t)\) can change its sign in \(\Pi_{T}\) and, in this case, posing nonlocal boundary value problems essentially depends on the sign of \(k(x,t)\) at the points \(t=0\) and \(t=T\). The first part of the author's study in the paper under review is devoted to the case in which the principle part of the equation, independent of the variables \(x\), and the indefinite function \(k(t)\) have various behavior at \(t=0\) and \(t=T\). More precisely, the following two problems are studied. Let \(k(T)\geq 0\) and \(k(0)\leq 0\). In this case, the first problem reads: find in \(\Pi_T\) a solution to the equation satisfying the boundary condition \[ u| _{t=0} = \gamma u| _{t=T}, \qquad 0<| \gamma | <1. \] If \(k(T)=k(0)\neq 0\) then the following problem can be posed: \[ u| _{t=0} = \gamma u| _{t=T}, \quad 0<| \gamma | <1,\qquad u_t| _{t=0} = \gamma u_t| _{t=T}. \] Boundary value problems are called nonlocal if certain relations are imposed between the traces of a solution and its derivatives at different parts of the boundary of the domain instead of fixing the traces. In the paper, existence and uniqueness theorems for smooth solutions in \(W_2^2(\Pi_{T})\) to the boundary value problems posed are proven under the assumption that the coefficients of the equation satisfy some natural conditions, in particular, \(2a-| k_t| +\lambda^2k\geq\delta>0\) in \(\Pi_T\), where \(\lambda^2= -{2\ln| \gamma| }/{T}\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0894.00016].

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