On mixed problems for quasilinear second-order systems (Q606237)

Summary: The paper is devoted to the study of initial-boundary value problems for quasilinear second-order systems. Existence and uniqueness of the solution in the space \(H^s(\overline \Omega\times [0,T])\), with \(s>d/2+3\), is proved in the case where \(\Omega \) is a half-space of \(\mathbb{R}^d\). The proof of the main theorem relies on two preliminary results: existence of the solution to mixed problems for linear second-order systems with smooth coefficients, and existence of the solution to initial-boundary value problems for linear second-order operators whose coefficients depend on the variables \(x\) and \(t\) through a function \(v\in H^s(\mathbb{R}^{d+1})\). By means of the results proved for linear operators, the well posedness of the mixed problem for the quasi-linear system is established by studying the convergence of a suitable iteration scheme.