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Physically speaking, the presence of losses in a system produces a decay of energy. The realization of energy decay depends on the structure of dissipative generalized forces. The usual approach (for a one-dimensional propagating system) consists in writing the evolution equation in the form \(\partial^2_t w+\varepsilon\partial^{1+ \alpha}_t w-\partial^2_x w= 0\), where \(t\) is time, \(x\) is the coordinate, and \(\alpha\) is a real parameter (if \(\alpha= 0\), the dissipation is viscous). In the case of a more complex visco-thermal dissipation (\(\alpha= 0.5\), the Lokshin-Rok model) [\textit{A. A. Lokshin} and \textit{V. E. Rok}, Sov. Phys. Dokl. 30, No. 7, 627-629 (1985; Zbl 0639.73015); translation from Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 283, No. 1, 61-66 (1985)], the energy decay is not obvious (the shape of damping is not necessarily exponential). The authors propose an original approach to the study of the above evolution equation. They use two operators which allow to perform the time integration of the evolution equation. By the use of this pair of operators, the authors introduce an augmented state system which is equivalent to the evolution equation in an appropriate Hilbert space, i.e. \(\partial_t X= A X\), where \(X\) is the state, and \(A\) is a matrix operator. The main result states that the global energy \(E_X\) of the augmented system can be written in the form \(E_X(t)= E_w(t)+\varepsilon E_\theta(t)\), where the global energy \(E_X\) is nonnegative and possesses negative time derivative \(\partial_t E_x\). It was previously proved that for \(\alpha= 0.5\) the decay is of order \(t^{-1}\). Here, the authors formulate a conjecture that for \(0\leq|\alpha|< 1\), the decay is of order \(t^{-\gamma(\alpha)}\), where \(\gamma(\alpha)\) is some positive function. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0904.00054].