Stress obtained by interpolation methods for a boundary value problem in linear viscoelasticity

We will solve the following boundary value problem in linear viscoelasticity: given the value of the stress on (a part of) the boundary of the domain find the stress in the whole body at all positive times. Using a state space setting we show that the stress field inside the body can be obtained from the boundary stress by a variation-of-parameters formula involving an analytic semigroup. The relation between the regularities of the boundary stress and the stress inside the body is therefore characterized by the well-known and rich regularity theory for analytic semigroups. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.