Analyticity and differentiability of semigroups associated with elastic systems with damping and gyroscopic forces (Q1377527)

The authors study a second order evolution equation of the type \(\ddot{w}(t)+B\dot{w}(t)+Aw(t)=0\) in a Hilbert space \(H\) where \(A,B\) are nonnegative operators in \(H\), which models a damping elastic system. A new variational formulation of the problem is introduced and well-posedness is proved by means of semigroup theory. Sufficient conditions are found for the corresponding semigroup to be analytic and differentiable.