Nonlinear weakly hyperbolic equations with Levi condition in Gevrey classes (Q5949478)

The authors study the well posedness in Gevrey classes for the quasilinear problem \[ \sum_{|\alpha |\leq m}a_\alpha (t,x,D^{m'}u) D^\alpha_{ t,x} u=f(t,x,D^{m'}u), \] \[ D_t^ju|_{t=0}= g_j,\quad 0\leq j<m, \] where \((t,x)\in[-T,T] \times\mathbb{R}^n\) and \(D^{m'}=(D^\alpha_{t,x}u; \alpha|\leq m') \), \(m'<m\). Under the assumptions that \(p_m(t,x,\zeta, \xi)=\sum_{|\alpha |=m} a_\alpha(t,x, \zeta)\xi^\alpha= \prod^d_{j=1}(\xi_0-\lambda_j (t,x, \zeta, \xi))^{m_j}\) has constant multiplicity, that the lower order terms \(p_j (t,x,\zeta, \xi)\sum_{|\alpha|=j} a_\alpha(t,x, \zeta)\xi^\alpha\) satisfy \[ P_j(t,x,\zeta,D) (he^{i\rho \varphi+\rho^{1/ \sigma}\psi})= 0(\rho^{m-m_j(1-1/ \sigma)}),\quad \rho \to\infty,\;j=1,\dots, d_k \] for every real smooth functions \(\psi\) and \(h\), and for every phase function \(\varphi\) associated to \(\lambda_j\), that the coefficients \(a_\alpha (t,x,\zeta)\) are \(k_0\)-times differentiable in \(t\), in Gevrey class of index \(\sigma\) in \(x\) and analytic in \(\zeta\), and that \(m'<m-r(1-1/ \sigma)\), where \(r=\max \{m_j\}\), the above Cauchy problem can be solved locally in Gevrey class of index \(\sigma\).