Liouville's theorem for homogeneous differential operators (Q4385682)

The author considers an extension of a Liouville's theorem obtained by \textit{D. Geller} [Commun. Partial Differ. Equations 8, 1665-1677 (1983; Zbl 0538.35019)] in the case of left invariant homogeneous hypoelliptic differential operators on a homogeneous group. The main theorem obtained here says essentially that, if \(P= P(x, D_x)\) is a homogeneous linear partial differential operator with smooth coefficients in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) (with a given dilation on \(\mathbb{R}^n\)) which is hypoelliptic at the origin, then any tempered distribution \(f\) on \(\mathbb{R}^n\) such that \(Pf= 0\) is a polynomial. As an example of operators entering in his class and not entering in Geller's theorem through a lifting theorem, the author gives the subelliptic operator \(P= \partial^2_x+ ix\partial^2_y\).