Global Gevrey Hypoellipticity of Involutive Systems on Non-Compact Manifolds

Abstract

We investigate the global Gevrey hypoellipticity of a class of first-order differential operators associated with tube-type involutive structures on $M\times {\mathbb{T}}^m$, where $M$ is a non-compact manifold diffeomorphic to the interior of a compact manifold with boundary and ${\mathbb{T}}^m$ is the $m$-dimensional torus. For $s>1$, we work in Gevrey classes of Roumieu and Beurling type. A key step is the construction, on $M$, of a scattering metric whose coefficients are Gevrey of order $s$ in every analytic chart; this allows us to use Hodge theory and obtain Gevrey regularity for the harmonic forms. Under a natural condition on the defining closed $1$-forms, we obtain a sharp criterion for global Gevrey hypoellipticity in terms of rationality and (Roumieu/Beurling) exponential Liouville behavior.

33 pages