%0 Journal Article %A Díaz Díaz, Jesús Ildefonso %A Liñán Martínez, Amable %T On the asymptotic behavior of solutions of a damped oscillator under a sublinear friction term %D 2001 %@ 1578-7303 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/57335 %X We show that there are two curves of initial data (xo, vo) for which the solutions x(t) of the corresponding Cauchy problem associated to the equation xtt + |xí|a_1 xt + x — 0, where a G (0,1), vanish after a finite time. By using asymptotic and methods and comparison arguments we show that for many other initial data the solutions decay to 0, in an infinite time, as i-"/í1-"). %~