Distribution of resonances and decay rate of the local energy for the elastic wave equation (Q5940547)

The author considers the elastic wave equation with Neumann or Dirichlet boundary condition \[ \begin{cases} \partial^2_tu-A_e(x,D_x)u=0 & \text{in\;}\mathbb{R}\times\Omega,\\ B(x,D)u=0 & \text{on }\mathbb{R}\times \partial\Omega,\\ u(0,x)=u_0(x),\;\partial_tu(0,x)=u_1(x) & \text{in }\Omega.\end{cases} \] Here \(A_e(x,D_x)\) and \(B(x,D_x)\) are of the form \[ A_e(x,D_x)=\mu\Delta_x+(\mu+\lambda)\nabla(\text{div}\cdot), \] where \(\mu>0\), \(3\lambda+2\mu>0\), \(\Omega=\mathbb{R}^3\setminus 0\). The author proves that there exists an exponentially small neighborhood of the real axis free of resonances. Moreover the author proves that for regular data, the energy for the elastic wave equation decays at least as fast as the inverse of the logarithm of time.