TY - JOUR ID - Nakao2014 LB - Nakao2014 AU - Nakao, Mitsuhiro TI - Global solutions to the initial-boundary value problem for the quasilinear viscoelastic equation with a derivative nonlinearity ST - Global solutions to the initial-boundary value problem for the quasilinear viscoelastic equation with a derivative nonlinearity JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2014 VL - 34 IS - 3 SP - 569 EP - 590 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2014.34.3.569 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2014.34.3.569 AB - We prove the existence and uniqueness of a global decaying solution to the initial boundary value problem for the quasilinear wave equation with Kelvin-Voigt dissipation and a derivative nonlinearity. To derive the required estimates of the solutions we employ a 'loan' method and use a difference inequality on the energy. KW - global solutions KW - energy decay KW - quasilinear wave equation KW - Kelvin-Voigt dissipation KW - derivative nonlinearity SN - 1232-9274 ER -