Abstract wave equations with acoustic boundary conditions

We define an abstract setting to treat wave equations equipped with time-dependent acoustic boundary conditions on bounded domains of ${\bf R}^n$. We prove a well-posedness result and develop a spectral theory which also allows to prove a conjecture proposed in (Gal-Goldstein-Goldstein, J. Evol. Equations 3 (2004), 623-636). Concrete problems are also discussed.