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We study the linear wave equation on a class of spatially homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetimes in the decelerated regime with spatial topology $\mathbb{R}^3$. Employing twisted $t$-weighted…

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The energy of solutions of the scalar damped wave equation decays uniformly exponentially fast when the geometric control condition is satisfied. A theorem of Lebeau [leb93] gives an expression of this exponential decay rate in terms of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-26 Guillaume Klein

We establish logarithmic local energy decay for wave equations with a varying wavespeed in dimensions two and higher, where the wavespeed is assumed to be a short range perturbation of unity with mild radial regularity. The key ingredient…

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In this paper we consider the local energy decay result for wave equations with a short-range potential. It is important to note that one never uses a finite speed of propagation property unlike the historical previous papers. The essential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Ryo Ikehata

This paper addresses the two-dimensional initial value problem in ${\bf R}^{2}$ for the wave equation with varying spatial coefficients in the main part. Assuming compactness in the support of the initial value, we report that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Ryo Ikehata

We consider damped wave equations with a potential and rotational inertia terms. We study the Cauchy problem for this model in the one dimensional Euclidean space and we obtain fast energy decay and L^2-decay of the solution itself as time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Ruy Coimbra Charão , Ryo Ikehata

We consider the Cauchy problem for wave equations with variable coefficients in the whole space. We improve the rate of decay of the local energy, which has been recently studied by J. Shapiro, where he derives the log-order decay rates of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-11 Ruy Coimbra Charao , Ryo Ikehata

We investigate trend to equilibrium for the damped wave equation with a confining potential in the Euclidean space. We provide with necessary and sufficient geometric conditions for the energy to decay exponentially uniformly. The proofs…

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We consider the Cauchy problem for wave equations with localized damping in ${\bf R}^{2}$. The damping is effective only near spatial infinity. We obtain fast energy decay estimate such that $O(t^{-2}\log t)$ as $t \to \infty$. Unlike the…

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We study the energy decay rate of the Kelvin-Voigt damped wave equation with piecewise smooth damping on the multi-dimensional domain. Under suitable geometric assumptions on the support of the damping, we obtain the optimal polynomial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Nicolas Burq , Chenmin Sun

We consider the wave equation with a damping term on a partially rectangular planar domain, assuming that the damping is concentrated close to the non-rectangular part of the domain. Polynomial decay estimates for the energy of the solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nicolas Burq , Michael Hitrik

In this paper we show how to obtain decay estimates for the damped wave equation on a compact manifold without geometric control via knowledge of the dynamics near the un-damped set. We show that if replacing the damping term with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-08 Hans Christianson , Emmanuel Schenck , András Vasy , Jared Wunsch

In earlier works, we have shown the uniform decay of the local energy of the damped wave equation in exterior domain when the damper is spatially localized near captive rays. In order to have uniform decay of the total energy, the damper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Lassaad Aloui , Slim Ibrahim , Moez Khenissi

In this paper, we investigate the direct and indirect stability of locally coupled wave equations with local viscous damping on cylindrical and non-regular domains without any geometric control condition. If only one equation is damped, we…

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We establish the presence of a spectral gap near the real axis for the damped wave equation on a manifold with negative curvature. This results holds under a dynamical condition expressed by the negativity of a topological pressure with…

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The first article in a two-part series (the second article being [arXiv:2205.13197]) assumes a weak local energy decay estimate holds and proves that solutions to the linear wave equation with variable coefficients in $\mathbb R^{1+3}$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Shi-Zhuo Looi

Consider the mixed problem with Dirichelet condition associated to the wave equation $\partial_t^2u-\Div_{x}(a(t,x)\nabla_{x}u)=0$, where the scalar metric $a(t,x)$ is $T$-periodic in $t$ and uniformly equal to 1 outside a compact set in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-07 Yavar Kian

We consider the initial-value problem for the one-dimensional, time-dependent wave equation with positive, Lipschitz continuous coefficients, which are constant outside a bounded region. Under the assumption of compact support of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Anton Arnold , Sjoerd Geevers , Ilaria Perugia , Dmitry Ponomarev

We provide a uniform decay estimate of Morawetz type for the local energy of general solutions to the inhomogeneous wave equation on a Schwarzchild background. This estimate is both uniform in space and time, so in particular it implies a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Pieter Blue , Jacob Sterbenz

We consider the stabilization problem on a manifold with boundary for a wave equation with measure-valued linear damping. For a wide class of measures, containing Dirac masses on hypersurfaces as well as measures with fractal support, we…

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