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Periodic solutions of abstract, nonlinear, wave equations are given when eigen-values of linear parts of those equations are incommensurable to the time period and a certain parameter is sufficiently large.
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Fečkan, M. Periodic Oscillations of Abstract Wave Equations. Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations 10, 605–617 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022681109302
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