Singular solutions of 3-D Protter-Morawetz problem for weakly hyperbolic equations of Tricomi type.

In this paper some ill-posed boundary-value problems (BVPs) for three - dimensional partial differential equations are studied. The situation with them is rather surprising and there is no general understanding even more than sixty years after their statement given by Murray Protter. These problems are multidimensional analogues of classical BVPs on the plane and intuitively the initial expectations was that their properties would be similar. Unexpectedly, it turned out that unlike the two-dimensional variants, the Protter-Morawetz problems are not well posed. The generalized solution is uniquely determined, but it may have a strong singularity at an isolated boundary point even for infinitely smooth right-hand side. Also, the adjoined problem has an infinite number of smooth solution in the kernel. In the present paper such ill-posed problems for 3-D Gellerstedt equation with lower order terms under multidimensional Protter condition are studied. In addition to new results, we also make a survey of the known results concerning the Protter-Morawetz problems for both Tricomi-type equations and Keldysh-type equations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]