Boundedness of planar jump discontinuities for homogeneous hyperbolic systems

Suppose that [Formula: see text] is a homogeneous constant coefficient strongly hyperbolic partial differential operator on [Formula: see text] and that [Formula: see text] is a characteristic hyperplane. Suppose that in a conic neighborhood of the conormal variety of [Formula: see text], the characteristic variety of [Formula: see text] is the graph of a real analytic function [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] identically equal to zero or the maximal possible value [Formula: see text]. Suppose that the source function [Formula: see text] is compactly supported in [Formula: see text] and piecewise smooth with singularities only on [Formula: see text]. Then the solution of [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] for [Formula: see text] is uniformly bounded on [Formula: see text]. Typically when [Formula: see text] on the conormal variety, the sup norm of the jump in the gradient of [Formula: see text] across [Formula: see text] grows linearly with [Formula: see text].

Perverse Sheaves on Grassmannians

We compute the category of perverse sheaves on Hermitian symmetric spaces in types A and D, constructible with respect to the Schubert stratification. The calculation is microlocal, and uses the action of the Borel group to study the geometry of the conormal variety Λ.

A Property of Lie Group Orbits

Let G be a real Lie group and X a real analytic manifold. Suppose that G acts analytically on X with finitely many orbits. Then the orbits are subanalytic in X. As a consequence we show that the micro-support of a G-equivariant sheaf on X is contained in the conormal variety of the G-action.