The global Cauchy problem for a vibrating beam equation (Q833293)

The authors investigate the Cauchy problem for an evolution equation of the fourth order in the spatial variable and second order in time. The evolutionary equation models an Euler-Bernoulli vibrating beam with time dependent elastic modulus under a force linear function of the displacement. As a main result, they prove well-posedness of solutions in suitable Sobolev spaces assuming that the coefficient of the shear term decays at the specific rate.