The solvability and subellipticity of systems of pseudodifferential operators

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Abstract

The paper studies the local solvability and subellipticity for square systems of principal type. These are the systems for which the principal symbol vanishes of first order on its kernel. For systems of principal type having constant characteristics, local solvability is equivalent to condition (Ψ) on the eigenvalues. This is a condition on the sign changes of the imaginary part along the oriented bicharacteristics of the real part of the eigenvalue. In the generic case when the principal symbol does not have constant characteristics, condition (Ψ) is not sufficient and in general not well defined. Instead we study systems which are quasi-symmetrizable, these systems have natural invariance properties and are of principal type. We prove that quasi-symmetrizable systems are locally solvable. We also study the subellipticity of quasi-symmetrizable systems in the case when principal symbol vanishes of finite order along the bicharacteristics. In order to prove subellipticity, we assume that the principal symbol has the approximation property, which implies that there are no transversal bicharacteristics.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Phase Space Analysis of Partial Differential Equations - In Honor of Ferruccio Colombini's 60th Birthday
EditorsDaniele Del Santo, M.K. Venkatesha Murthy, Antonio Bove
PublisherSpringer
Pages73-94
Number of pages22
ISBN (Print)9780817648602
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009 Aug 21
EventSiena workshop in honor of Ferruccio Colombini on the occasion of his 60th birthday, 2007 - Siena, Italy
Duration: 2007 Oct 102007 Oct 13

Publication series

NameProgress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications
Volume78
ISSN (Print)1421-1750
ISSN (Electronic)2374-0280

Conference

ConferenceSiena workshop in honor of Ferruccio Colombini on the occasion of his 60th birthday, 2007
Country/TerritoryItaly
CitySiena
Period2007/10/102007/10/13

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Mathematical Analysis

Free keywords

  • Principal type
  • Pseudodifferential
  • Solvability
  • Subelliptic
  • System

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