# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

March  2013, 2(1): 1-33. doi: 10.3934/eect.2013.2.1

## Spectral analysis and exponential or polynomial stability of some indefinite sign damped problems

 1 Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut Cambrésis, LAMAV, FR CNRS 2956, Institut des Sciences et Techniques of Valenciennes, F-59313 - Valenciennes Cedex 9, France, France

Received  May 2012 Revised  October 2012 Published  January 2013

In this paper, we consider two damped wave problems for which the damping terms are allowed to change their sign. Using a careful spectral analysis, we find critical values of the damping coefficients for which the problem becomes exponentially or polynomially stable up to these critical values.
Citation: Farah Abdallah, Denis Mercier, Serge Nicaise. Spectral analysis and exponential or polynomial stability of some indefinite sign damped problems. Evolution Equations & Control Theory, 2013, 2 (1) : 1-33. doi: 10.3934/eect.2013.2.1
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