Abstract: | We consider the following nonlinear viscoelastic equation together with Dirichlet-boundary conditions, in a bounded domain Ω and ρ > 0. We prove an exponential decay result for a class of relaxation functions. Our result is established without imposing the usual relation between g and its derivative (© 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) |