Propagation of mild singularities for semilinear weakly hyperbolic equations (Q5926437)

The authors prove the local existence, uniqueness and propagation of singularities of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the equations \(u_{tt}+\sum _{j=1}^nc_j(t)\lambda (t)u_{x_jt}- \sum _{i,j=1}^na_{ij}(t)\lambda (t)^2u_{x_ix_j}+ \sum _{j=1}^nb_j(t)\lambda '(t)u_{x_j}+c_0(t)u_t=\sum _{j=1}^{\infty }f_ju^j.\) Using an appropriate scale of generalized Sobolev-like spaces they introduce the framework of optimal spaces assigned to weakly hyperbolic operators. Besides, the results tell us that mild singularities of the solutions to semilinear equations propagate in the same way as that to linear equations.