Well-defined solvability and spectral analysis of abstract hyperbolic integrodifferential equations

Abstract

The authors study integrodifferential equations in Hilbert space. The coefficients of the equations are unbounded and the principal part is an abstract hyperbolic equation perturbed by terms with Volterra integral operators. Such equations can be regarded as an abstract generalization of the Gurtin–Pipkin integrodifferential equation that describes heat transfer in materials with memory and has a number of other applications. Well-defined solvability of initial boundary value problems for such equations is established in weighted Sobolev spaces on the positive semi-axis. The authors examine spectral problems for operator-valued functions representing the symbols of the said equations and study the spectrum of the abstract Gurtin–Pipkin integrodifferential equation.