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Forced Vibrations via Nash-Moser Iteration

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We construct time periodic solutions for a cubic nonlinear wave equation with time-dependent forcing term.

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Fokam, JM. Forced Vibrations via Nash-Moser Iteration. Commun. Math. Phys. 283, 285–304 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-008-0509-2

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