Sufficient conditions for local solvability of some degenerate pdo with complex subprincipal symbol (Q2280117)

This paper deals with the local solvability for a class of degenerate linear second order partial differential operators having complex subprincipal symbol. The sufficient conditions guaranteeing the local solvability are imposed on the real and imaginary part of the subprincipal symbol which is invariantly defined. The \(L_2\)-to-\(L_2\) local solvability is proved by using the Weyl calculus for pseudodifferential operators and the Fefferman-Phong inequality. The main result -- Theorem 1 -- is illustrated by four examples.