On hyperbolic systems with time dependent H\"older characteristics

Abstract

In this paper we study the well-posedness of weakly hyperbolic systems with time dependent coefficients. We assume that the eigenvalues are low regular, in the sense that they are H\"older with respect to $t$. In the past these kind of systems have been investigated by Yuzawa \cite{Yu:05} and Kajitani \cite{KY:06} by employing semigroup techniques (Tanabe-Sobolevski method). Here, under a certain uniform property of the eigenvalues, we improve the Gevrey well-posedness result of \cite{Yu:05} and we obtain well-posedness in spaces of ultradistributions as well. Our main idea is a reduction of the system to block Sylvester form and then the formulation of suitable energy estimates inspired by the treatment of scalar equations in \cite{GR:11}