Pseudodifferential Operators on Stratified Manifolds

Abstract

We consider a specific class of manifolds with singularities, namely, stratified manifolds, and describe a class of pseudodifferential operators (PsiDO) related to differential operators with degeneration of first-order with respect to the distance to the strata on such manifolds. (For manifolds with isolated singularities, this is a Fuchs type degeneration.) We restrict ourselves to the case of zero-order operators in L^2 spaces. The definition of PsiDO adopted in our approach uses induction over the number of strata in the manifold. The induction process naturally involves PsiDO with parameters.