scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1013382

Publication date 5 October 1997

anti-periodic Green's function critical length monotone iterative techniques

Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Nonlinear initial, boundary and initial-boundary value problems for linear parabolic equations (35K60)

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Let \(Lu=u_t-u_{xx}+\sigma u,\) where \(\sigma\geq0.\) In the paper the following problem is considered \[ Lu=f(t,x,u)\quad\text{ in}\quad \Omega_\infty=(-\infty,\infty)\times(0,a),\;\;u(t,0)=\gamma_1(t),\;u(t,a)=\gamma_2(t),\;-\infty<t<\infty, \] where \(f,\gamma_1,\gamma_2\) are continuous functions. For this semilinear parabolic boundary value problem the existence of \(T\)-antiperiodic solutions is investigated. The paper is arranged as follows. First, the anti-periodic Green's function is constructed. Then, after having established the equivalence of the problem and a corresponding integral equation associated with the anti-periodic Green's function, it is proved using the Picard method, under certain sufficient conditions, the existence of a unique anti-periodic solution. Under the assumption of the existence of weakly coupled upper and lower solutions, two monotone sequences converging from below and above to the unique solution are constructed. Then some existence and non-existence results are obtained. In particular, the existence of a unique critical length is proved.

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