Decoupling techniques for wave equations with dynamic boundary conditions (Q1779055)

The authors introduce a decoupling technique for operator matrices with nondiagonal domains on coupled spaces which simplifies the study of Cauchy problems for wave equations with dynamic boundary conditions. The one-dimensional wave equation on (0,1) is reduced to a first-order abstract Cauchy problem on the energy space \(H^1(0,1)\times L^2(0,1)\). As in [\textit{V. Casarino, K.-J. Engel, R. Nagel} and \textit{G. Nickel}, Integral Equations Oper. Theory 47, 289--306 (2003; Zbl 1048.47054)], the product space \(H^1(0,1)\times L^2(0,1)\times C^2\) endowed with the canonical scalar product is considered, where \(H^1(0,1)\times L^2(0,1)\) is called the state space and \(C^2\) is the boundary space. Then some methods from [\textit{K.-J. Engel}, Analyticity of semigroups generated by operators with generalized Wentzell boundary conditions, preprint (2002)] regarding a coupled space \(X\) are exploited to solve the problem. An appropriate similarity transformation is used to decouple the space \(X\) and to avoid in this way some inconveniences.