Exponential decay for solutions to semilinear damped wave equation (Q428412)

The paper deals with decay estimates of the solution to the initial Dirichlet boundary value problem for the equation \(u_{tt}-\Delta u-\omega \Delta u_t+\mu u_t=u| u| ^{p-2}\) in \(\Omega \times (0,+\infty )\), where \(\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n\) is a bounded regular domain, \(p>2\) and \(\omega ,\mu \) are nonnegative numbers, at least one of those is positive. The authors improve the earlier results from [\textit{F. Gazzola} and \textit{M. Squassina}, Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré, Anal. Non Linéaire 23, No. 2, 185--207 (2006; Zbl 1094.35082)], where polynomial decay of the solution is proved. They find such initial data, the global solution to those decays exponentially to \(0\) as \(t\rightarrow +\infty \).