Failure of convergence of the Lax-Oleinik semi-group in the time periodic case
We prove the existence and find necessary and sufficient conditions for the uniqueness of the time-periodic solution to the equations for an arbitrary (sufficiently smooth) periodic right-hand side , where denotes the Laplace operator with respect to , and is the Ishlinskii hysteresis operator. For this equation describes e.g. the vibrations of an elastic membrane in an elastico-plastic medium.
In the paper, we deal with the equation of a rectangular thin plate with a simply supported boundary. The restoring force being an odd superlinear function of the vertical displacement, the existence of infinitely many nonzero time-periodic solutions is proved.