On uniqueness and stability for a thermoelastic theory

In this paper we investigate a thermoelastic theory obtained from the Taylor approximation for the heat flux vector proposed by Choudhuri. This new thermoelastic theory gives rise to interesting mathematical questions. We here prove a uniqueness theorem and instability of solutions under the relaxed assumption that the elasticity tensor can be negative. Later we consider the one-dimensional and homogeneous case and we prove the existence of solutions. We finish the paper by proving the slow decay of the solutions. That means that the solutions do not decay in a uniform exponential way. This last result is relevant if it is compared with other thermoelastic theories where the decay of solutions for the one-dimensional case is of exponential way.