Small vibrations of a nonhomogeneous string of length one with left end fixed and right one moving with damping are described by the one-dimensional wave equation v tt (x,t)-1 ρ(x)v xx (x,t)=0,x∈[0,1],t∈[0,∞),v(0,t)=0,v x (1,t)+hv t (1,t)=0,v(x,0)=v 0 (x),v t (x,0)=v 1 (x), where ρ is the density of the string and h is a complex parameter. This equation can be rewritten in an operator form as an
... [Show full abstract] abstract Cauchy problem for the closed, densely defined operator B acting on a certain energy space H. It is proven, that the operator B generates the exponentially stable C 0 -semigroup of contractions in the space H under assumptions that Re h>0 and the density function is of bounded variation satisfying 0<m≤ρ(x) for a.e. x∈[0,1].