Global regularity of second order twisted differential operators (Q2306676)

The authors study global regularity, in the sense of Shubin, for non-hypoelliptic differential operators with polynomial coefficients. To this aim they make use of a transformation of Wigner type in order to obtain a bi-unique correspondence between twisted partial differential operators of second order in \(\mathbb R^2\) (which are never hypoelliptic) and second-order ordinary differential operators with polynomial coefficients and symbol of degree 2. The authors characterize global regularity for these last operators in terms of the behaviour of the complex roots of the Weyl symbol. They then deduce a characterization of global regularity for the corresponding twisted operators.