On the wellposedness in the ultradifferentiable classes of the Cauchy problem for a weakly hyperbolic equation of second order (Q1818036)

For weakly hyperbolic equations there exists an interesting connection between the Hölder continuity of the coefficients with respect to \(t\) and classes of Gevrey well-posedness with respect to the spatial variables. The goal of the author is to generalize this connection to well-posedness in classes of ultra-differentiable functions with respect to \(x\) and \(\omega\)-Lipschitz-continuity to \(t\). As a model Cauchy problem he considers \[ \partial^2_tu-\partial_x \bigl(a(t,x) \partial_x u\bigr)+ f(t,x,u,u_x)=0 \quad \text{in }[0,T] \times P, \] \[ u(0,x)=u_0(x),\;\partial_t u(0,x)= u_1(x) \quad \text{on }P, \] where \(P\) is a fixed compact interval. The main tool is an estimate for linearized weakly hyperbolic equations of a suitable energy of infinite order basing on partial energies, a time-dependent weight function and constants defining ultradifferentiable classes. This energy estimate is derived as an approximation by energy estimates for solutions of strictly hyperbolic equations with smooth coefficients. To include nonlinearities one has to study composite functions in those classes of ultradifferentiable functions. Some more examples would complete the considerations.