Stability result for a class of weakly dissipative second-order systems with infinite memory

Abstract

In this paper we consider the following abstract class of weakly dissipative second-order systems with infinite memory, \(u''(t)+Au(t)-\displaystyle\int_{0}^{\infty} g(s)A^\alpha u(t-s)ds=0,~t>0,\) and establish a general stability result with a very general assumption on the behavior of \(g\) at infinity; that is \(g'(t) \leq - \xi(t) G \left(g(t)\right),~~t \geq 0.\) where \(\xi\) and \(G\) are two functions satisfying some specific conditions. Our result generalizes and improves many earlier results in the literature. Moreover, we obtain our result with imposing a weaker restrictive assumption on the boundedness of initial data used in many earlier papers in the literature such as the one in [1,2,3,4,5]. The proof is based on the energy method together with convexity arguments.