General decay result of solutions for viscoelastic wave equation with Balakrishnan-Taylor damping and a delay term (Q2219307)

The authors study the initial-boundary value problem \begin{align*} &\partial_{tt}u -\left(u+ b\|\nabla u\|^2_2+\alpha \int_\Omega\nabla u\cdot\nabla u_t\,\mathrm{d}x \right)\Delta u + \sigma(t)\int_0^t g(t-s)\delta u(s)\,\mathrm{d}s\\ &+\mu_1|u_t|^{m-2}u_t+\mu_2|u_t(t-\tau)|^{m-2}u_t(t-\tau)=0 \ \text{in}\ \Omega\times (0,\infty),\\ &u(x,t)=0\ \text{on}\ \partial\Omega\times (0,\infty),\quad u(x,0)=u_0\ \text{in}\ \Omega,\\ & u_t(x,t-\tau)=f_0(x,t-\tau)\ \text{in}\ \Omega\times (0,\tau), \end{align*} where \(\Omega\) is a bounded Lipschitz domain in \(\mathbb{R}^n,\ m\ge 2,\ \tau>0\) is a time delay, \(\sigma\) and \(g\) are positive functions. The considered problem represents one of a lot various generalizations of similar problems. Novelty here is the term \(|u_t|^{m-2}u_t\) and its delay instead of \(u_t\) and its delay. Local existence and uniqueness theorem is stated without any proof. The main result is the decay of the energy in a form \[E(t)\le Ke^{-k\int_0^t\zeta(s)\sigma(s)ds}\ \forall t\ge t_1>0.\]