The Cauchy problem for nearly hyperbolic or no-hyperbolic quasi-linear systems in Gevrey regularity

Overview & Synopsis

We consider the Cauchy problem for first-order, quasilinear systems of PDEs. In the initially elliptic case, that is when the principal symbol of the system has nonreal spectrum at time t=0, we prove an instability result in the sense of Hadamard. The proof is based on the construction of a family of exact solutions which exhib an exponential growth, both in time and frequency. That family leads to a defect of Hölder regularity of the flow, starting from evrey spaces to L² space. We prove analogous results for some cases of transition from hyperbolicity to ellipticity, with a potential restriction on the Gevrey index for which we may observe the instability. In a second time, we consider weakly hyperbolic systems. Thanks to an energy estimate in Gevrey spaces and the construction of a suitable symetriser, we prove local well-posedness for such a system. In doing so we use and prove a result on actions of pseudo-differential operators whose symbols have Gevrey regularity in the spatial variable