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One of the main topics of research of the authors is the construction of fundamental solutions for differential operators with constant coefficients. This paper is one of a series of papers about this topic. Here the authors consider products of hyperbolic operators (hyperbolic with respect to a direction \(N\in\mathbb{R}^n\setminus \{0\}\)). An important tool of their considerations is Feynman's first parametric formula \[ {1\over \prod^m_{k=1} a_k}= (m-1)! \int_{\sum_{m-1}} {dw(\lambda)\over (\sum^m_{k=1}\lambda_k a_k)^m},\quad a_k> 0, \] where \(\sum_{m-1}\) denotes the \((m-1)\)-dimensional standard simplex in \(\mathbb{R}^m\). Using this formula the authors give a representation of the fundamental solution of the product \(\prod^m_{k=1} P^{r_k}_k(\partial)\) of hyperbolic operators \(P_k(\partial)\) by an \((m-1)\)-fold definite integral. If, additional, the polynomials \(P_k\) belong to an \(l\)-dimensional affine subspace \((l< m-1)\) of the space of polynomials, then it is even possible to represent the fundamental solution by a sum over \(l\)-dimensional parametric integrals. The fundamental solution is uniquely determined by an assumption about its behaviour in the direction \(N\). The results will be applied to transport operators, heat operators and Klein-Gordon operators. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0833.00014].