Solution

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By the contraction mapping theorem, the contraction has a unique fixed point . The identity says exactly that is the weak solution of the linear initial boundary value problem whose forcing is . Consequently satisfies
with the prescribed initial and homogeneous Dirichlet data. Thus a sufficiently small gives a local weak solution of the semilinear wave equation, as summarized by the local weak solution by contraction for a semilinear wave equation.

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