LOCAL AND MICROLOCAL CAUCHY PROBLEM FOR NON-EFFECTIVELY HYPERBOLIC OPERATORS

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 185-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
TATSUO NISHITANI

We study differential operators of order 2 and establish new energy estimates which ensure that the micro supports of solutions to the Cauchy problem propagate with finite speed. We then study the Cauchy problem for non-effectively hyperbolic operators with no null bicharacteristic tangent to the doubly characteristic set and with zero positive trace. By checking the energy estimates, we ensure the propagation with finite speed of the micro supports of solutions, and we prove that the Cauchy problem for such non-effectively hyperbolic operators is C∞ well-posed if and only if the Levi condition holds.

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 535-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico Bernardi ◽  
Antonio Bove ◽  
Vesselin Petkov

We study a class of third-order hyperbolic operators P in G = {(t, x): 0 ≤ t ≤ T, x ∈ U ⋐ ℝn} with triple characteristics at ρ = (0, x0, ξ), ξ ∈ ℝn ∖{0}. We consider the case when the fundamental matrix of the principal symbol of P at ρ has a couple of non-vanishing real eigenvalues. Such operators are called effectively hyperbolic. Ivrii introduced the conjecture that every effectively hyperbolic operator is strongly hyperbolic, that is the Cauchy problem for P + Q is locally well posed for any lower order terms Q. This conjecture has been solved for operators having at most double characteristics and for operators with triple characteristics in the case when the principal symbol admits a factorization. A strongly hyperbolic operator in G could have triple characteristics in G only for t = 0 or for t = T. We prove that the operators in our class are strongly hyperbolic if T is small enough. Our proof is based on energy estimates with a loss of regularity.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 75-122
Author(s):  
Ferruccio Colombini ◽  
Tatsuo Nishitani

We consider the Cauchy problem for second-order differential operators with two independent variables [Formula: see text]. Assuming that [Formula: see text] is a nonnegative [Formula: see text] function and [Formula: see text] is a nonnegative Gevrey function of order [Formula: see text], we prove that the Cauchy problem for [Formula: see text] is well-posed in the Gevrey class of any order [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text].


2006 ◽  
Vol 133 (31) ◽  
pp. 176-186
Author(s):  
Daniela Calvo ◽  
L. Rodino

After a short survey on Gevrey functions and ultradistributions, we present the inhomogeneous Gevrey ultradistributions introduced recently by the authors in collaboration with A. Morando, cf. [7]. Their definition depends on a given weight function ?, satisfying suitable hypotheses, according to Liess-Rodino [16]. As an application, we define (s, ?)-hyperbolic partial differential operators with constant coefficients (for s > 1), and prove for them the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem in the frame of the corresponding inhomogeneous ultradistributions. This sets in the dual spaces a similar result of Calvo [4] in the inhomogeneous Gevrey classes, that in turn extends a previous result of Larsson [14] for weakly hyperbolic operators in standard homogeneous Gevrey classes. AMS Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 46F05, 35E15, 35S05.


A method is described by means of which the characteristic initial value problem can be reduced to the Cauchy problem and examples are given of how it can be used in practice. As an application it is shown that the characteristic initial value problem for the Einstein equations in vacuum or with perfect fluid source is well posed when data are given on two transversely intersecting null hypersurfaces. A new discussion is given of the freely specifiable data for this problem.


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