Instability results for the damped wave equation in unbounded domains

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 168-186

  Freitas, P ^a   Krejcirik D ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Damped wave equation; Indefinite damping; Instability; Schr dinger operators; Unbounded domains

Indexed keywords

EID: 14244253920     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2004.06.006     Document Type: Article

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