Families of periodic solutions of resonant PDEs

摘要

We construct some families of small amplitude periodic solutions close to a completely resonant equilibrium point of a semilinear reversible partial differential equation. To this end, we construct, using averaging methods, a suitable map from the configuration space to itself. We prove that to each nondegenerate zero of such a map there corresponds a family of small amplitude periodic solutions of the system. The proof is based on Lyapunov-Schmidt decomposition. This establishes a relation between Lyapunov-Schmidt decomposition and averaging theory that could be interesting in itself. As an application, we construct countable many families of periodic solutions of the nonlinear string equation u(tt) - u(xx) +/- u(3) = 0 (and of its perturbations) with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We also prove that the fundamental periods of solutions belonging to the n(th) family converge to 2 pi when the amplitude tends to zero. [References: 17]