Global hypoellipticity of subelliptic operators on closed manifolds (Q1962719)

This paper deals with the global hypoellipticity of a class of linear differential operators acting on a closed manifold \(M\) (compact, connected manifold without boundary). Roughly speaking the second order operators under consideration are of the type ``sums of squares'' of smooth, real tangent vector fields on \(M\). The authors prove a sufficient condition for global hypoellipticity (Theorem 3.3) and illustrate it by several examples, namely the horizontal Laplacians and some operators which do not have infinite-simally transitive points.