Asymptotic fast-decreasing solutions of linear, strictly hyperbolic systems with variable coefficients (Q1814568)

The authors study the propagation of localized initial data for strictly hyperbolic systems with variable coefficients. They study the Cauchy problem for the strictly hyperbolic system (1) \((i\partial/\partial t)^ m u=A(x,t,-i\partial/\partial x,i\partial/\partial t)u\), \(x\in\mathbb{R}^ n\), \(u\in\mathbb{R}^ \ell\), with initial data depending on a small parameter \(h\to 0\). The initial data are of the form of a narrow crest concentrated in a neighborhood (of breadth \(\sim h\)) of the \((n-k)\)-dimensional plane \(y=0\), \(y\in\mathbb{R}^ k\); (2) \(u\mid_{t=0}=u_ 0(y/h,z)\), \(\partial^ j/\partial t^ j u\mid_{t=0}=0\) (\(j=1,\dots,m-1\), \(x=(y,z))\). Here \(A(x,t,\xi,\xi_ 0)\) is a polynomial of degree \(m\) in \((\xi,\xi_ 0)\), \(A\) does not depend on \((x,t)\) for \(| x|>R\). The authors construct the asymptotic \((\text{mod}h^ k)\) for solutions of the problem (1), (2) having the form of a wave concentrated for any \(t\) in a neighborhood of some surface in \(\mathbb{R}^ n\) (the wave front); in the neighborhood of non-singular points of the front simple asymptotic formulae for the solution are obtained. The results are illustrated in the case of the wave equation.