Invariant conditions for hyperbolicity of systems and reduction of systems (Q1908867)

Conditions for hyperbolicity (\(L\)-conditions) of partial differential operators with analytic coefficients were obtained in a previous paper of the second author [C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. I 313, No. 5, 227-230 (1991; Zbl 0755.35064)]. It is shown here, that these conditions are necessary and sufficient in order that the Cauchy problem is well-posed for a system of partial differential operators with analytic coefficients. In the first section, \(L\)-conditions for systems in general case are recalled, and the authors reduce them, using a theorem of W. Matsumoto, to a normal form, where one can read hyperbolicity. In the next sections, the authors give the calculations needed to show invariance under conjugation by operators of change of order (that are used in the proof of Matsumoto's theorem), when the multiplicity is five.