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# General decay estimates for a Cauchy viscoelastic wave problem

• In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem of a viscoelatic wave equation and by using the energy method in the Fourier space, we show general decay estimates of the solution. This result improves and generalizes some other results in the literature.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35L05, 35L15, 35L70; Secondary: 37B25.

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