Boundary stabilization of the waves in partially rectangular domains (Q1948762)

Considered is an IBV-problem for the homogeneous wave equation in a bounded partially rectangular domain in \(\mathbb{R}^2\) , with a dissipative boundary condition having as damping term a non-negative continuous function \(a(x)\) on this boundary. The announced main result of the paper is an estimation of the energy decay . As the author mentions, the result in this paper is similar to the one obtained by \textit{K. D. Phung} in [Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 20, No. 4, 1057--1093 (2008; Zbl 1156.35417)], where a polynomial order energy decay have been shown. However, the proof here is different. The author makes use of some known results regarding decay rates and estimation of resolvent in the theory of linear operators on Hilbert spaces.