Decay Estimates for Solutions of Linear Elasticity for Anisotropic Media
Markus Stoth · Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences · 1996
We analyse the time decay of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the linear hyperbolic system of elasticity for anisotropic media. As an example, we will consider media with hexagonal symmetry. First we derive decay estimates for special initial data using the method of stationary phase in several variables and degenerate phase function based on the Malgrange preparation theorem. Asymptotic expansions are given to prove the sharpness of the weaker time decay found for zinc and beryl than in the isotropic case. A method using Besov spaces leads to ℒ︁p–ℒ︁q-estimates.