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Achieving arbitrarily large decay in the damped wave equation. (English) Zbl 0983.35095

Summary: We exhibit a sequence of viscous dampings for the fixed string that yields arbitrarily fast attenuation of any and all initial disturbances. The limit case produces extinction of all solutions in finite time.

MSC:

35P15 Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs
35L05 Wave equation
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