Time-periodic linear boundary value problems on a finite interval

TL;DR

This paper investigates the long-term behavior of solutions to linear dispersive PDEs on finite intervals with time-periodic boundary conditions, using the Fokas method to identify conditions for asymptotic periodicity and analyze specific examples.

Contribution

It extends the Fokas method to characterize asymptotic periodicity of linear dispersive PDEs on finite intervals, providing new results for third-order cases.

Findings

Identifies necessary conditions for asymptotic periodicity of solutions.

Fully describes periodicity properties in three key examples.

Recovers known results for second-order cases and establishes new results for third-order cases.

Abstract

We study the large time behaviour of the solution of a linear dispersive PDEs posed on a finite interval, when the prescribed boundary conditions are time periodic. We use the approach pioneered in Fokas & Lenells 2012 for nonlinear integrable PDEs. and then applied to linear problems on the half-line in Fokas & van der Weele 2021, to characterise necessary conditions for the solution of such a problem to be periodic, at least in an asymptotic sense. We then fully describe the periodicity properties of the solution in three important illustrative examples, recovering known results for the second-order cases and establishing new ones for the third order one.