Spectral analysis of a viscoelasticity problem (Q2416756)

The author study an eigenvalue problem associated with small movements of a viscoelastic body fixed on the boundary of a bounded domain. He proves that the spectrum of the problem is to lie in a vertical strip bounded away from the imaginary axis and to be symmetric about the real axis and that the essential spectrum of the problem consists of a finite number of points on the real axis. Moreover, there are two sequences of complex conjugate eigenvalues condensing toward infinity and that under certain additional conditions, the spectrum that does not lie on the real axis is bounded away from it.