AN APPLICATION OF CRITICAL POINT THEORY TO THE NONLINEAR HYPERBOLIC SYSTEM

We investigate the existence of multiple nontrivial solutions $u(x,t)$ for a perturbation $b[({\xi}-{\eta}+2)^+-2]$ of the hyperbolic system with Dirichlet boundary condition $$(0.1)\;L{\xi}={\mu}[({\xi}-{\eta}+2)^+-2]\;in\;({-{\frac{{\pi}}{2}}},{\frac{{\pi}}{2}}){\times}\mathbb{R},\\L{\eta}={\nu}[({\xi}-{\eta}+2)^+-2]\;in\;({-{\frac{{\pi}}{2}}},{\frac{{\pi}}{2}}){\times}\mathbb{R},$$, where $u^+$=max{u,o}, ${\mu}$, ${\nu}$ are nonzero constants. Here L is the wave operator in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and the nonlinearity $({\mu}-{\nu})[({\xi}-{\eta}+2)^+-2]$ crosses the eigenvalues of the wave operator.