Abstract:
A study is made of the behavior for large time of solutions of the exterior mixed problem for the evolution system
$$
u_{tt}+A(x,D_x)u=0,
$$
where $A(x,D_x)$ is a strongly elliptic operator of order $2l$ ($ l\geqslant1$). Sharp estimates are obtained for certain weighted norms of the solutions as $t\to\infty$.