On the energy decay estimates for the weak dissipative wave equations with oscillating coefficient

Abstract: It is known that the asymptotic behavior of time-dependent dissipative coefficient in the Cauchy problem of dissipative wave equation dominates the energy decay estimate. In particular, it is important to study the case where the dissipative coefficient behave like $1/t$ as $t$ goes to infinity, which is called weak dissipation, because its order is close to the critical case of decay and non-decay. In this case, an oscillating perturbation of weak dissipation can give a crucial effect on the energy decay estimate, but the analysis is very difficult compared to the case without oscillations. In this paper, we develop a method recently introduce by Ghisi-Gobbino that has contributed to a precise analysis for dissipative wave equations with oscillating weak dissipation, and consider the effect of the oscillations, which is more general and close to the critical case. Furthermore, we study the effect of the smoothness of the initial data on the energy decay estimates.