Portillo Oquendo, Higidio; Calsavara, Bianca Morelli Rodolfo Exponential decay for waves with indefinite memory dissipation. (English) Zbl 1413.35083 Differ. Integral Equ. 30, No. 11-12, 975-988 (2017). The authors consider the equation \[ u_{tt}-u_{xx}+\partial_x[a(x)+\int^t_0 g(t-s)u_x(x,s) ds]=0 \] in \((0,L]\times(0,\infty)\) under Dirichlet boundary conditions and with initial data \(u(0)\in H_0^1\) and \(u_t(0)\in L^2(0,L).\) Assuming \(\int_0^La(x)dx>0\) and that \(a'\), \(a''\) are uniformly bounded and that the kernel \(g\) is small and its two first derivatives decay exponentially, and that the bound on the derivatives of \(a\) is small compared to \(g\) the authors prove that the norms of \(u(t)\) and \(u_t(t)\) in respectively \(H_0^1\) and \(L^2\) decay exponentially. The proof is by classical resolvent theory for Volterra equations, by fixed point theory and by a result of G. Menz [J. Differ. Equations 242, No. 1, 171–191 (2007; Zbl 1143.35007)] on exponential stability of certain semigroups. Reviewer: Stig-Olof Londen (Aalto) MSC: 35B40 Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs 45D05 Volterra integral equations 74D99 Materials of strain-rate type and history type, other materials with memory (including elastic materials with viscous damping, various viscoelastic materials) Keywords:linear wave equation with Volterra term; exponential decay of solutions; semigroups Citations:Zbl 1143.35007 × Cite Format Result Cite Review PDF