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Pointwise Stabilization for a Chain of Coupled Vibrating Strings

Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
For the system representing a chain of coupled vibrating strings, we show that the associated semigroup satisfies the assumption of spectrum-determined growth, and hence obtain conditions for energy to decay strongly or exponentially. We examine in detail the three-string case, and our results include those obtained by others for the two-string case.
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