A remark on 2-microhyperbolicity (Q1269350)

The notion of microhyperbolicity due to \textit{M. Kashiwara} and \textit{T. Kawai} [J. Math. Soc. Japan 27, 359-404 (1975; Zbl 0305.35066)] has played an important role in many problems concerning existence and regularity of solutions of linear PDE in microfunctions. When we study microfunction solutions from a second microlocal point of view, new phenomena appear. In fact, the basic notion is that of the second wave front set, and this notion is already for opportunity reasons closely related to that of second-hyperfunctions, respectively second-microfunctions. (We shall call them 2-hyperfunctions and 2-microfunctions hence forth). It is then natural to introduce the notion of 2-microhyperbolicity, a notion which turns out to be quite efficient for regularity problems but which seems to have no immediate applications for existence problems in standard microfunctions, in view of the fact that the space of 2-hyperfunctions is much larger than is the space of microfunctions. The main purpose of the present paper is to clarify the situation by examining an example which is modelled on the classical Mizohata operator.