Existence of periodic solutions for a class of nonlinear evolution equations.
In this paper, we are concerned with the semilinear parabolic equation ∂u/∂t - Δu = g(t,x,u) if u = 0 if , where is a bounded domain with smooth boundary ∂Ω and is T-periodic with respect to the first variable. The existence and the multiplicity of T-periodic solutions for this problem are shown when g(t,x,ξ)/ξ lies between two higher eigenvalues of - Δ in Ω with the Dirichlet boundary condition as ξ → ±∞.
The existence of global solutions and the phenomenon of blow-up of a solution in finite time for a recently derived shallow water equation are studied. We prove that the only way a classical solution could blow-up is as a breaking wave for which we determine the exact blow-up rate and, in some cases, the blow-up set. Using the correspondence between the shallow water equation and the geodesic flow on the manifold of diffeomorphisms of the line endowed with a weak Riemannian structure, we give sufficient...
We discuss the existence of positive radial solutions of the semilinear elliptic equation ⎧-Δu = K(|x|)f(u), x ∈ Ω ⎨αu + β ∂u/∂n = 0, x ∈ ∂Ω, ⎩, where , N ≥ 3, K: [r₀,∞) → ℝ⁺ is continuous and , f ∈ C(ℝ⁺,ℝ⁺), f(0) = 0. Under the conditions related to the asymptotic behaviour of f(u)/u at 0 and infinity, the existence of positive radial solutions is obtained. Our conditions are more precise and weaker than the superlinear or sublinear growth conditions. Our discussion is based on the fixed point...