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A Fundamental Solution for a Nonelliptic Partial Differential Operator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Peter C. Greiner*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
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Let

(1)

and set

(2)

Here . Z is the “unique” (modulo multiplication by nonzero functions) holomorphic vector-field which is tangent to the boundary of the “degenerate generalized upper half-plane”

(3)

In our terminology t = Re z1. We note that is nowhere elliptic. To put it into context, is of the type □b, i.e. operators like occur in the study of the boundary Cauchy-Riemann complex. For more information concerning this connection the reader should consult [1] and [2].

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1979

References

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