Morawetz's method for the decay of the solution of the exterior initial-boundary value problem for the linearized equation of dynamic elasticity

In this paper, the behavior of the solution of the time-dependent linearized equation of dynamic elasticity is examined.For the homogeneous problem, it is proved that in the exterior of a star-shaped body on the surface of which the displacement field is zero, the solution decays at the rate t ^-1 as the time t tends to infinity.For the non-homogeneous problem with a harmonic forcing term, it is proved that for large times, the elastic material in the exterior of the body, tends to a harmonic motion, with the period of the external force.The convergence to the steady harmonic state solution is at the rate t ^-1/2 as t tends to infinity, and is uniform on bounded sets.