Exponential stability in type III thermoelasticity with microtemperatures

In this paper we consider the type III thermoelastic theory with microtemperatures. We study the time decay of the solutions and we prove that under suitable conditions for the constitutive tensors, the solutions decay exponentially. This fact is in somehow shocking because it differs from the behavior of the solutions in the classical model of thermoelasticity with microtemperaturesPeer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft