Polynomial Stabilization of Solutions to a Class of Damped Wave Equations

Publication date 6 March 2017

Abstract: We consider a class of wave equations of the type

p a r t i a l_{t t} u + L u + B p a r t i a l_{t} u = 0

, with a self-adjoint operator

L

, and various types of local damping represented by

B

. By establishing appropriate and raher precise estimates on the resolvent of an associated operator

A

on the imaginary axis of

B b b C

, we prove polynomial decay of the semigroup

e x p (- t A)

generated by that operator. We point out that the rate of decay depends strongly on the concentration of eigenvalues and that of the eigenfunctions of the operator

L

. We give several examples of application of our abstract result, showing in particular that for a rectangle

O m e g a := (0, L_{1}) i m e s (0, L_{2})

the decay rate of the energy is different depending on whether the ratio

L_{1}^{2} / L_{2}^{2}

is rational, or irrational but algebraic.

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