Exponential decay for a nonlinear system of hyperbolic equations with locally distributed dampings (Q4030875)

Let the functions \((f,g)=\nabla F\) satisfy some growth conditions and the nonnegative functions \(a(x)\), \(b(x)\) are bounded below by a positive constant on \(O_ a \cap\Omega\), \(O_ b\cap\Omega\), resp., where \(\Omega\) is a bounded, open connected set in \(R_ n\) and \(O_ a\), \(O_ b\) are some neighbourhoods of \(\partial\Omega\). The author gives the sufficient conditions, under which solutions \(u\), \(v\) of the system \[ u_{tt}- \Delta u+f(u,v)+au_ t=0 \qquad v_{tt}- \Delta v+g(u,v)+bv_ t=0, \] satisfying Dirichlet conditions on \(\partial\Omega\) and some initial data for \(t=0\) have on \(\Omega\times (0,\infty)\) exponential decay for \(t\to\infty\).