Exponential characterization in linear viscoelasticity under delay perturbations (Q2682369)

The authors consider a second-order integro-differential problem with delay written as \[\partial _{tt}z+A\left( z-\int_{0}^{\infty }g(s)z(t-s)ds\right) +\mu \partial _{t}z(t-\tau )=0,\] with \(t>0\), where \( A:D(A)\subset H\rightarrow H\) is a positive, self-adjoint and densely defined operator, \((H,\left\Vert \cdot \right\Vert ,(\cdot ,\cdot ))\) is a Hilbert space, \(\tau >0\) is the time lag, \(\mu \in \mathbb{R}\) is the delay coefficient and \(g:\mathbb{R}^{+}\rightarrow \lbrack 0,\infty )\) is the memory kernel which is supposed to be absolutely continuous, non-increasing and summable with total mass \(l=\int_{0}^{\infty }g(s)ds\in (0,1)\). The initial conditions are \(z(t)=z_{0}(t)\), \(t\in (-\infty ,0]\), \(\partial _{t}z\mid _{t=0}=z_{1}\), \(\partial _{t}z(t-\tau )=z_{2}(t-\tau )\), \(t\in (0,\infty )\). The authors define the notion of admissible kernel as a function \(g:\mathbb{R}^{+}\rightarrow \lbrack 0,\infty )\) which satisfies \( \int_{s}^{\infty }g(y)dy\leq \Theta g(s)\), \(\forall s>0\), for some \(\Theta >0 \). Let \(\zeta ^{t}(s)=z(t)-z(t-s)\), \(t\geq 0\), \(s>0\) and define the memory space as \( \mathcal{M}=\{\zeta :\mathbb{R}^{+}\rightarrow V\) \, :\, \(\int_{0}^{\infty }g(s)\left\Vert A^{1/2}\zeta (s)\right\Vert ^{2}ds<\infty \}\). Consider the operator \( \mathbb{L}:D(\mathbb{L})\subset \mathcal{M}\rightarrow \mathcal{M}\) defined as \(D(\mathbb{L})=\{\zeta \in \mathcal{M}\), \(\mathbb{L}\zeta \in \mathcal{M}\) with \(\zeta (0)=0\}\), \(\mathbb{L}\zeta =-\partial _{s}\zeta \), and \( v(t,p)=\partial _{t}z(t-\tau p)\), \(p\in (0,1)\). Taking into account the above definitions the authors end up with the following problem: \[\partial _{tt}z+A\left( (1-l)z-\int_{0}^{\infty }g(s)\zeta (t-s)ds\right) +\mu v(1)=0,\] \[\partial _{t}\zeta =\mathbb{L}\zeta +\partial _{t}z, \qquad \tau \partial _{t}v=-\partial _{p}v,\] with \(t>0\), initial conditions \(z(0)=z_{0}(0)\), \(\partial _{t}z(0)=z_{1}\), \(\zeta _{0}(s)=z_{0}(0)-z_{0}(-s)\), \(s>0\), \(v(0,p)=z_{2}(-\tau p)\), \(0<p<1\), and compatibility conditions \(\zeta ^{t}(0)=0\), \(v(t,0)=\partial _{t}z(t)\), \(t>0\). Defining now \(Z=(z,w,\zeta ,v)^{\intercal }\), with \(w=\partial _{t}z\), they rewrite the obtained problem as \[\partial _{t}Z=\mathbb{B}_{\mu }Z,\] with \(t>0\) and initial condition \(Z(0)=Z_{0}\). Using the semigroup approach, they prove that if \(Z_{0}\in \mathcal{H}_{\mu }=V\times H\times \mathcal{M}\times \mathcal{D}\), with \(\mathcal{D}=L^{2}(0,1;H)\), the above problem has a unique mild solution \(Z(t)=S_{\mu }(t)Z_{0}\) in the class \(Z\in C([0,+\infty );\mathcal{H}_{\mu })\). The main result of the paper is the following: if \(g\) is an admissible kernel which satisfies the above conditions and if the flatness rate of \(g\) is less than 1/2, then there exists a constant \(\mu _{0}>0\), independent of \(\mu \), such that \(S_{\mu }(t)=e^{ \mathbb{B}_{\mu }t}\) is exponentially stable on \(\mathcal{H}_{\mu }\), for every \(0<\left\vert \mu \right\vert <\mu _{0}\).