On localizations of a class of strongly hyperbolic systems (Q1804702)

This is a continuation of author's previous work on strongly hyperbolic systems. The aim of this paper is to make more detailed studies on localizations at an involutive characteristic of strongly hyperbolic systems. The first result in this paper is concerned with the localization \(L_z\) at an involutive characteristic \(z\) of order \(r\) of a strongly hyperbolic system \(L\). It is shown that every \((r - 1)\)-th minor of \(L_z\) vanishes of order \(s - 2\) at every characteristic of order \(s\) of \(L_z\). The second result is: Let \(z,z'\) be characteristics of the system \(L\) and of the localization \(L_z\) of order \(r\) and \(s\) respectively. Then, assuming that the characteristic set of \(L\) is an involutive \(C^\infty\) manifold, every \((r-1)\)-th minor of \(L_z\) vanishes of order \(s - 1\) at \(z'\) if \((z,z')\) is ``involutive'' in author's sense.