Analyticity of solutions for quasilinear wave equations and other quasilinear systems

Abstract

We prove the persistence of analyticity for classical solution of the Cauchy problem for quasilinear wave equations with analytic data. Our results show that the analyticity of solutions, stated by the Cauchy-Kowalewski and Ovsiannikov-Nirenberg theorems, lasts till a classical solution exists. Moreover, they show that if the equation and the Cauchy data are analytic only in a part of space-variables, then a classical solution also is analytic in these variables. The approach applies to other quasilinear equations and implies the persistence of the space-analyticity (and the partial space-analyticity) of their classical solutions.