Analyticity and exponential stability of semigroups for the elastic systems with structural damping in Banach spaces (Q2260421)

The authors are interested in the following abstract Cauchy problem with special structural damping \[ u_{tt} + \rho A u_t + A^2 u=0, t \in (0,\infty), u(0)=x_0, u_t(0)=y_0 \] in a Banach space \(X\). Here \(A:D(A) \subset X \to X\) is a sectorial operator, \(x_0 \in D(A), y \in X\). The authors reduce after factorization this abstract Cauchy problem to the following abstract system: \[ \begin{aligned} & v_t + \sigma_1 Av=0, v(0)=v_0:=y_0+\sigma_2 A x_0,\\ & u_t + \sigma_2 Au=v(t), u(0)=x_0,\end{aligned} \] where \(\sigma_1+\sigma_2=\rho, \sigma_1 \sigma_2=1\). For some range of \(\rho\), the operators \(-\sigma_1 A\) and \(-\sigma_2 A\) generate analytic and exponentially stable semigroups on \(X\). This leads to well-posedness results in \(X\). Some applications to mixed problems for structurally damped beam equations complete the paper.