Global classical solutions to a kind of quasilinear hyperbolic systems in several space variables (Q392470)

The global existence of classical solutions for small and decaying initial data, under hypotheses of weak linear degeneracy and weak strict hyperbolicity is proved for the following Cauchy problem: \[ \frac{\partial u}{\partial t}+\sum_{\alpha=1}^{N}A^{\alpha}(u)\frac{\partial u}{\partial x^{\alpha}}=F(u), x\in\mathbb R^N, \, t\geq 0, \] \[ u=u_{0}(x), x\in\mathbb R^N,\, t=0. \] By hyperbolicity, for any given \(\omega=(\omega^1,\dots ,\omega^N)^T\in S^{N-1}\), the matrix \[ A(u,\omega)=\sum_{\alpha=1}^NA^\alpha (u)\omega^\alpha \] has \(n\) distinct real eigenvalues \(\lambda_k(u,\omega )\) and a complete set of left (resp. right) eigenvectors \(l_k(u,\omega)=(l_{k1}(u,\omega),\dots ,l_{kn}(u,\omega))\) (resp. \(r_k(u,\omega)=(r_{1k}(u,\omega),\dots ,r_{nk}(u,\omega))^T\)) with the assumption that \(\lambda_k(u,\omega)\), \(l_k(u,\omega)\) and \(r_k(u,\omega)\) are suitable smooth for with respect to \(u\) and \(\omega \in \mathcal{S}^{N-1}\). It is proved that for any given \(\mu>0\) there exists a constant \(\theta_0>0\) such that for any given \(H^s(s>\frac{N}{2}+1)\) initial data \(u_0\) satisfying \[ \sup \{(1+x)^{1+\mu}(| u_0(x)| +|\nabla_xu_0(x)|)\}\leq \theta_0, \] the Cauchy problem admits a unique global classical solution, where \(\|\cdot\|\) stands for the Euclidean norm in \(\mathbb R^n\).