Gevrey well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the hyperbolic equations of third order with coefficients depending only on time (Q5931096)

The author shows the well-posedness in the Gevrey class \(\gamma^s\) of the Cauchy problem for the hyperbolic equations of third order with coefficients depending only on the time variable. He considers the following equation in a band \([0,T]\times \mathbb{R}^n\) \[ u_{ttt}+ \sum^n_{i=1} a_i(t) u_{ttx_i}+ \sum^n_{i,j=1} b_{ij}(t) u_{tx_i x_j}= 0, \] \[ u(0,x)= u_0(x),\quad u_t(0,x)= u_1(x),\quad u_{tt}(0)= u_2(x), \] where \(a_i(t)\), \(b_{ij}(t)\) are the real coefficients satisfying \[ a_i(t)\in C^{(k+ \alpha)/2}([0, T]),\quad k=0,1,\quad 0\leq \alpha\leq 1, \] \[ b_{ij}(t)\in C^{k+\alpha}([0, T]),\quad k\geq 0,\quad 0\leq \alpha\leq 1. \] Under the hyperbolic conditions below, \(\sum b_{ij}(t)\xi_i\xi_j\leq 0\), he proved that for any \(u_i\in \gamma^s\) \((i= 0,1,2)\), the Cauchy problem has a unique solution \(u\in C^3([0, T],\gamma^s)\), provided \(1\leq s< 1+(k+ \alpha)/2\).