Hyperbolic systems with double characteristics
Hyperbolic systems with double characteristics
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具有双重特性的双曲系统
DOI:
10.1002/cpa.3160460207
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发表时间:
1993
影响因子:
3
通讯作者:
L. Hörmander
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作者:
L. Hörmander
F. John (see [4]) made the surprising discovery that although scalar hyperbolic differential equations are always limiting cases of strictly hyperbolic ones (cf. Nuij,[6]), there are hyperbolic systems for which no small perturbation is strictly hyperbolic. His result concerned systems with three space variables and three unknowns, closely related to the equations of elasticity. John proved that nearby hyperbolic systems with real coefficients form a manifold of codimension 4 in the space of second-order systems with real coefficients, and that no such systems are strictly hyperbolic. In this paper we shall give alternative proofs and extensions of the results of John in [4]. In particular, we shall show that the situation is quite different when complex coefficients are allowed. The symmetrizable systems considered by John are then limits of strictly hyperbolic ones (Theorem 5.7). However, the phenomenon he observed for three space variables reappears when there are four space variables and complex coefficients are allowed. The results of [4] depend in our formulation on the fact that there is a non-trivial real line bundle on the circle, the Mobius strip. The analogous results in the complex case depend on the fact that there are non-trivial complex line bundles on the two-dimensional sphere S2. Section 2 is devoted to stability theorems exploiting these facts.The ideas of John (see [4]) as developed in Section 2 are basic in the study of various classes of non-symmetric hyperbolic systems in Sections 3, 4, and 5. Each of these sections begins with a discussion of a class of symmetric hyperbolic systems whose non-symmetric perturbations are then examined. Section 3 is mainly devoted to first-order linear hyperbolic systems with real coefficients, primarily with three space variables and 3 x 3 matrix coefficients. In the symmetric case they have generically either four or two non-degenerate double characteristics. Those with four double characteristics are equivalent in the sense that they only differ by a change of variables and left and right multiplication by invertible matrices. Even non-symmetric hyperbolic perturbations are no more general (Theorem 3.5). The systems with two nondegenerate double characteristics depend on one parameter, and their nonsymmetric hyperbolic perturbations depend on two parameters. They are listed explicitly (Theorem 3.6). Section 4 is an analogous study ofjrst-order linear hyperbolic systems with complex coefficients, primarily with four space variables and 3 x 3 matrix coefficients. In the hermitian symmetric case we