Boundedness of planar jump discontinuities for homogeneous hyperbolic systems

Suppose that [Formula: see text] is a homogeneous constant coefficient strongly hyperbolic partial differential operator on [Formula: see text] and that [Formula: see text] is a characteristic hyperplane. Suppose that in a conic neighborhood of the conormal variety of [Formula: see text], the characteristic variety of [Formula: see text] is the graph of a real analytic function [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] identically equal to zero or the maximal possible value [Formula: see text]. Suppose that the source function [Formula: see text] is compactly supported in [Formula: see text] and piecewise smooth with singularities only on [Formula: see text]. Then the solution of [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] for [Formula: see text] is uniformly bounded on [Formula: see text]. Typically when [Formula: see text] on the conormal variety, the sup norm of the jump in the gradient of [Formula: see text] across [Formula: see text] grows linearly with [Formula: see text].

A quasianalytic singular spectrum with respect to the Denjoy-Carleman class

Making use of the FBI (Fourier-Bros-Iagolnitzer) transforms we simplify the quasianalytic singular spectrum for the Fourier hyperfunctions, which was defined for distributions by Hörmander as follows; for any Fourier hyperfunction u, (x0, ξ0) does not belong to the quasianalytic singular spectrum W FM(u) if and only if there exist positive constants C, γ and N, and a neighborhood of x0 and a conic neighborhood Г of ξ0 such thatfor all x ∈ U, |ξ| ∈ Γ and |ξ| ≥ N, where M(t) is the associated function of the defining sequence Mp. This result simplifies Hörmander’s definition and unify the singular spectra for the C∞ class, the analytic class and the Denjoy-Carleman class, both quasianalytic and nonquasianalytic.