On the energy decay for dissipative nonlinear wave equations in one space dimension (Q2014099)

The authors consider the energy decay problem for the nonlinear dissipative wave equation in one space dimension, \[ u_{tt}-u_{xx}+|u_t|^{p-1}u_t=0, \quad x\in\mathbb{R},~ t>0, \] with \[ u(x,0)=u_0(x),~ u_t(x,0)=u_1(x), \quad x\in\mathbb{R}, \] and where \(p>1\) and \((u_0,u_1)\in H^2(\mathbb{R})\times H^1(\mathbb{R})\) satisfy \(\text{supp}(u_0,u_1)\subset[-R,R].\) The global well-posedness of this problem for any initial data \(u_0\in H^{s+1}(\mathbb{R})\), \(u_1\in H^s(\mathbb{R})\) and \(0\leq s \leq 1\) was established in [\textit{J.-L. Lions} and \textit{W. A. Strauss}, Bull. Soc. Math. Fr. 93, 43--96 (1965; Zbl 0132.10501)]. More recently it was shown in [\textit{K. Mochizuki} and \textit{T. Motai}, J. Math. Soc. Japan 47, No. 3, 405--421 (1995; Zbl 0835.35093)] that the decay rate is at least logarithmic when \(1<p<3\). The present article, a polynomial decay rate for the same range of exponents is obtained.