Existence and stability of time periodic solutions to nonlinear elastic wave equations with viscoelastic terms

TL;DR

This paper proves the existence and stability of time periodic solutions in nonlinear elastic wave equations with viscoelastic effects, using spectral decomposition, Poincaré map, and semigroup smoothing techniques.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach combining spectral analysis and semigroup estimates to establish stability of time periodic solutions in viscoelastic wave equations.

Findings

Existence of time periodic solutions proved using spectral decomposition and Poincaré map.

Stability established through decay estimates derived from semigroup smoothing effects.

Sharp decay properties of perturbations confirm the solutions' stability.

Abstract

Existence and stability of time periodic solutions for nonlinear elastic wave equations with viscoelastic terms are established. The existence of the time periodic solution is proved using the spectral decomposition of the linear principal part and the Poincar\'{e} map. On the other hand, the proof of the stability of the time-periodic solutions is generally problematic due to the slow time decay induced by the time periodic solutions. Based on the regularity estimates of the time periodic solution derived from the smoothing effect of the semigroup, sharp decay properties of the perturbation from the time periodic solution are proved, which proves the stability.