A well-posedness result for hyperbolic operators with Zygmund coefficients

In this paper we prove an energy estimate with no loss of derivatives for a strictly hyperbolic operator with Zygmund continuous second order coefficients both in time and in space. In particular, this estimate implies the well-posedness for the related Cauchy problem. On the one hand, this result i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Colombini, F., del Santo, D., Fanelli, F., Métivier, G.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM)
Repositorio:BIRD. BCAM's Institutional Repository Data
OAI Identifier:oai:bird.bcamath.org:20.500.11824/539
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11824/539
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Energy estimates
H∞ well-posedness
Non-Lipschitz coefficients
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Secondary
Strictly hyperbolic operators
Zygmund regularity
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Sumario:In this paper we prove an energy estimate with no loss of derivatives for a strictly hyperbolic operator with Zygmund continuous second order coefficients both in time and in space. In particular, this estimate implies the well-posedness for the related Cauchy problem. On the one hand, this result is quite surprising, because it allows to consider coefficients which are not Lipschitz continuous in time. On the other hand, it holds true only in the very special case of initial data in H1/2×H-1/2. Paradifferential calculus with parameters is the main ingredient to the proof.