Asymptotic stability of the wave equation on compact manifolds and locally distributed viscoelastic dissipation (Q2845467)

The authors show that the solutions to a partial viscoelastic model decay exponentially to zero no matter how small the viscoelastic portion of the material. They also give a new geometric proof of a result due to \textit{J. E. Muñoz Rivera} and \textit{A. Peres Salvatierra} [Q. Appl. Math. 59, No. 3, 557--578 (2001; Zbl 1028.35025)] using microlocal analysis, which allows not only to improve the assumptions imposed on the relaxation function but to extend the result from the Euclidean setting to a compact Riemannian manifold.