scholarly journals Damped vibration problems with sign-changing nonlinearities: infinitely many periodic solutions

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Peng ◽  
Haiyan Lv ◽  
Guanwei Chen
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Hui Wei ◽  
Shuguan Ji

This paper is devoted to the study of periodic (in time) solutions to an one-dimensional semilinear wave equation with x-dependent coefficients under various homogeneous boundary conditions. Such a model arises from the forced vibrations of a nonhomogeneous string and propagation of seismic waves in nonisotropic media. By combining variational methods with an approximation argument, we prove that there exist infinitely many periodic solutions whenever the period is a rational multiple of the length of the spatial interval. The proof is essentially based on the spectral properties of the wave operator with x-dependent coefficients.


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