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Dynamics for a viscoelastic beam equation with past history and nonlocal boundary dissipation

Analysis of PDEs 2026-01-13 v1

Abstract

This article aims to study the long-time dynamics of the linear viscoelastic plate equation utt+Δ2uτtg(ts)Δ2u(s)ds=0\displaystyle{u_{tt}+\Delta^2 u-\int_{\tau}^tg(t-s)\Delta^2u(s)ds=0} subject to nonlinear and nonlocal boundary conditions. This model, with τ=0\tau=0, was first considered by Cavalcanti (Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 8(3), 675-695, 2002), where results of global existence and uniform decay rates of energy have been established. In this work, by taking τ=\tau=-\infty, and considering the autonomous equivalent problem we prove that the dynamical system (H,St)(\mathcal{H},S_t) generated by the weak solutions has a compact global attractor A\mathfrak{A} (in the topology of the weak phase space H\mathcal{H}), which in subcritical case has finite dimension and smoothness. Furthermore, when the force follows the {\it Hook Law}, we prove that (H,St)(\mathcal{H},S_t) possesses a (generalized) fractal exponential attractor Aexp\mathfrak{A}_{\exp} with finite dimension in a space H~H\widetilde{\mathcal{H}}\supset\mathcal{H}.

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@article{arxiv.2601.06414,
  title  = {Dynamics for a viscoelastic beam equation with past history and nonlocal boundary dissipation},
  author = {Linfang Liu and Vando Narciso and Zhijian Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.06414},
  year   = {2026}
}