On well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for p-parabolic systems (Q1098007)

We are concerned with the Cauchy problem for the following p-parabolic systems \[ (1.1)\quad du(x,t)/dt=A(x,t;D)u(x,t)+f(x,t),\quad (x,t)\in R^ n\times [0,T] \] \[ (1.2)\quad u(x,0)=u_ 0(x)\in H^ p(R^ n), \] where \(u(x,t)\) and \(u_ 0(x,t)\) are m-vectors, and \[ (1.3)\quad A(x,t;D)=H(x,t;D)\Lambda \quad p+B(x,t;D). \] Here \((\Lambda u)(\xi)=| \xi | \hat u(\xi)\) and p is a positive number. \(H(x,t,\xi)\) is an \(m\times m\) homogeneous matrix of degree 0 in \(\xi\) and is assumed to be sufficiently smooth and bounded for \((x,\xi)\in R^ n\times \{\xi,| \xi | \geq 1\}\), \(B(x,t,\xi)\in S^{p_ 0}_{1,0}\), \(0\leq p_ 0<p\), modulo smoothing operators. \(H(x,t,\xi)\), \(B(x,t;\xi)\) and \(f(x,t)\) are Hölder continuous in t. Assume that there exists a positive \(\delta\) such that it holds \[ (1.4)\quad Re \lambda_ i(x,t,\xi)\leq -\delta,\forall_{1\leq \lambda_ i\leq m},\quad \xi \in S^{n-1}, \] where \(\lambda_ i\) are the roots of the characteristic equation \(\det (\lambda I-H(x,t,\xi))=0\); our result is stated as follows: Theorem. For any initial data \(u_ 0\in H^ p\) and any right-hand side \(f(t)\) satisfying a Hölder condition, there exists a unique solution \(u(x,t)\) for the Cauchy problem (1.1)-(1.2) belonging to \(C^ 0_ t([0,T];H^ p)\cap C^ 1_ t([0,T];L^ 2).\)