The Cauchy problem for hyperbolic systems with Hölder continuous coefficients with respect to time (Q2576964)

The author is interested in the following weakly hyperbolic Cauchy problem: \[ \begin{cases} \partial_tu(t,x)-\sum^\alpha_{j=1}A_j(t)\partial_{x_j}u(t,x)=f(t,x),\quad (t,x)\in[0,T]\times\mathbb R^d,\\ u(0,x) =u_0(x),\quad x\in \mathbb R^d,\end{cases} \] where \(A_j\) are \(N\times N\) matrix functions, \(f,u,u_0\) are vector functions. The following assumptions are stated: (A.1) All eigenvalues of \(\sum^d_{j=1}A_j (t)\xi_j\) are real-valued on \([0,T]\times \{\mathbb R^d\setminus \{0\}\}\) and their multiplicity does not exceed \(\nu\); (A.2) the matrices \(A_j\) belong to \(C^{0,\mu}[0,T]\), (A.3) the Gevrey index \(s\) is chosen from the interval \([1,1+\frac\mu\nu)\). Then for any given \(f\in C([0,T],\) \(\gamma^{(s)}(\mathbb R^d))\) and \(u_0\in\gamma^{(s)}(\mathbb R^d)\) there exists a uniquely determined \(u\in C^1([0,T], \gamma^2(\mathbb R^d))\). The transformation \(v(t,x):= e^{(T-t)\langle D\rangle^\kappa}u(t,x)\) in the above Cauchy problem leads to a parabolic regularized Cauchy problem for \(v\): \[ \begin{cases} D_tv(t,x) - i\langle D\rangle^\kappa v(t,x) -\sum^n_{j=1}A_j(t) D_{x_j} v(t,x)=g(t,x),\\ v(0,x) = v_0(x).\end{cases} \] This Cauchy problem will be solved by constructing a semi-group \(V = V(t,\tau,\xi)\) to the generator \(i\langle D\rangle^\kappa I + \sum^d_{j=1} A_j(t)D_{x_j}\). Here an argument due to Tanabe-Sobolevskii for evolution equations is used. Finally, an a priori estimate is derived.