Special Session 60: 

EXISTENCE RESULTS FOR THE MIXED CAUCHY-DIRICHLET PROBLEM FOR A CLASS OF HYPERBOLIC OPERATORS

Annamaria Barbagallo
University of Naples Federico II
Italy
Co-Author(s):    Vincenzo Esposito
Abstract:
We establish several a priori estimates of local or global nature in Sobolev spaces with general exponent $s \leq 0$ for a class of second-order hyperbolic operators with double characteristics in presence of a transition in a domain of the Euclidian space $\mathbb{R}^3$. Then, we study the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem for a class of hyperbolic second order operators with double characteristics in presence of transition in a domain of $\mathbb{R}^3$. In particular, we obtain some existence results.