A sufficient condition for well-posedness for systems with time-dependent coefficients (Q983874)

The author considers the Cauchy problem in some Gevrey classes for linear, smooth, hyperbolic systems \[ L(t,\partial_t,\partial_x)= \partial_t- \sum^n_{j=1} A_j(t)\partial_{x_j}- B(t) \] with time-dependent coefficients and size \(N\), where \(A_j(t)\in C^N([0,T])\), \(B(t)\in C^{N-1}([0, T])\). He proved that if for any \(t\), the eigenvalues \(\mu_1,\dots, \mu_m\) of \(\sum A(t)\xi_j\) have constant multiplicity \(M_j\), \(j= 1,\dots, m\) and \(|\mu_j- \mu_k|\approx t^\alpha\), \(j\neq k\), then the Cauchy problem is well-posed in Gevrey class of order \(d\) for any \(1< d< d^*\) and any \(B(t)\), where \(d^*= 1+{n+1\over (N-1)\alpha-1}\), if \((N - M)\alpha\geq M\) and \(d^*= 1+ {1\over M-1}\), if \((N- M)\alpha\leq M\), and \(M= \max M_j\).