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Constant-coefficient equations and solvability

Polynomial symbols connect support geometry with regularity and solvability. The topics include fundamental solutions, operator strength, propagation, hyperbolic equations, Cauchy and boundary problems, polynomial division, global solvability and convolution systems.

A draft course with 214 lessons, worked examples, exercises and solutions. Individual lessons name their prerequisite assumptions, including supporting results whose proofs are still planned.

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Lessons

  1. Fundamental solutions and the directions an equation uses
  2. Measuring regularity with weighted Fourier spaces
  3. Local regularity, sharp embeddings, and compactness
  4. Regular kernels and changes in the equation
  5. Operator strength and local inverses
  6. Rescaled symbols and stable strength
  7. Freezing coefficients without losing strength
  8. The geometry of coefficients and strength
  9. Positive symbols and energy estimates
  10. Approximation and global solvability from support geometry
  11. Choosing polynomial and exponential approximants
  12. Singular supports and arbitrary distribution data
  13. Boundary distance and propagation
  14. Planar domains and directional solvability
  15. Wave kernels with complex coefficients
  16. Lorentz cones and domain solvability
  17. Cylindrical wedges and support
  18. Symbols at infinity
  19. Wavefronts of regular kernels
  20. Regularity and tempered growth
  21. Hypoellipticity and complex zeros
  22. Weighted interior estimates and operator strength
  23. Algebraic families of hypoelliptic operators
  24. Partial smoothing and polynomial coefficients
  25. From partial regularity to smooth solutions
  26. Subspace detection and singularity carriers
  27. Logarithmic inverses and smooth barriers
  28. Geometry of singular supports
  29. Uniform interior estimates with distance weights
  30. Directional growth and complex-zero geometry
  31. Anisotropic derivative classes and analyticity
  32. Petrowsky parabolicity and semielliptic regularity
  33. The wave Cauchy problem and Kirchhoff's formula
  34. Spacelike Cauchy surfaces and the Riesz formula
  35. Wave rays, caustics, and stationary amplitudes
  36. Simple wave caustics and the Airy transition
  37. Causal solvability forces hyperbolicity
  38. Hyperbolicity and lower order terms
  39. Multiple characteristics and allowed lower order terms
  40. Causal fundamental solutions and lower order expansions
  41. Cauchy data, regularity and spacelike initial surfaces
  42. Continuous functionals, test families and compact limits
  43. Lebesgue duality and the functionals on Fourier spaces
  44. Primitive factors and moving polynomial roots
  45. Cauchy bounds, root counts and analytic extensions
  46. Fixed-support derivatives and logarithmic Fourier graphs
  47. Polygonal regions and the directions on a circle
  48. Smooth convex sweeps and first contact
  49. Principal roots and uniform time kernels
  50. Small Gevrey classes and compact Fourier decay
  51. Small Gevrey solutions of the full Cauchy problem
  52. Small Gevrey fundamental solutions in the principal polar cone
  53. Fourier windows, sector growth and branched vanishing
  54. Uniqueness in a slab with bounded support
  55. Compact Cauchy data and local coherence
  56. Sharp support for irreducible Cauchy equations
  57. Regular balls, moving roots and complex gauges
  58. Weighted inversion on a half-line
  59. Analytic norms and propagation on complex balls
  60. Uniform bounds for algebraic analytic branches
  61. Root factors and the full symbol norm
  62. Weighted estimates from analytic root branches
  63. Disintegrating half-space restriction norms
  64. Weighted control on the negative half-space
  65. Local supported solutions with the exact symbol gain
  66. Supported smooth approximation
  67. Global supported solvability on countably many scales
  68. Supported fundamental solutions and test estimates
  69. Analytic root barriers and supported solvability
  70. Evolution operators in a component of equal strength
  71. Two-dimensional evolution roots and model components
  72. Incoming normal roots at a flat boundary
  73. Boundary data for a decaying half-line equation
  74. Boundary determinants as causal Fourier kernels
  75. Missing boundary rank produces a causal solution
  76. Boundary determinants annihilate causal solutions
  77. The principal boundary symbol at high frequency
  78. Degenerate boundary symbols and smooth nonuniqueness
  79. Uniqueness from the principal boundary symbol
  80. A necessary time strip for smooth mixed solvability
  81. Extending a boundary time strip to its propagation cone
  82. Polynomial reciprocal bounds inside a mixed boundary tube
  83. Boundary fundamental kernels and their propagation support
  84. Compatible smooth mixed data and the data that determine a solution
  85. Causal mixed solutions with distribution-valued data
  86. Complex oblique derivatives for the wave equation
  87. A reflected wave and its faster boundary pulse
  88. Constant-strength inverses with causal support
  89. Constant strength, regularity, and the directions of singularities
  90. Fourier limits and the obstructions that descend to an open set
  91. Global solvability and finite-dimensional adjoint obstructions
  92. Real Laurent paths and the growth of normal windows
  93. Flat half-space solutions from real frequency rays
  94. Two flat boundaries and a nonzero phase bridge
  95. Characteristic rays and directional strength
  96. Curved support boundaries and principal preservation
  97. Simple-root phases and flat switching errors
  98. Rational complex frequency paths without real poles
  99. Moving complex frequency windows to a linear limit
  100. Physical transport scales and curved phases
  101. Joining modes through a vanishing operator image
  102. Periodic flat solutions and uniform integer frequencies
  103. Compact elliptic kernels and adjoint obstructions
  104. Complex frequency windows and exact half-space support
  105. Every normal from a polynomial strength imbalance
  106. Splitting normal roots and exceptional-factor perturbations
  107. Elliptic nonuniqueness from complex frequency windows
  108. Normal root distances and compatible complex scales
  109. Small weaker perturbations and hyperbolic uniqueness
  110. Flat half-space solutions with perturbations of arbitrary order
  111. Smooth solutions with an exact characteristic halfspace as support
  112. Null-section curvature and the Riesz comparison
  113. Fundamental solutions in shrinking cones
  114. Root growth and Cauchy evolution in Schwartz spaces
  115. Support cones force reciprocal bounds
  116. When zero smooth periods mean that a cycle bounds
  117. Logarithmic Fourier graphs construct a cone-supported inverse
  118. Tangent cones that permit an imaginary push
  119. A wave sphere that bounds rationally but not integrally
  120. Averaging an entire function while avoiding polynomial zeros
  121. Counting cycles with rational periods
  122. Compact Fourier division and multiplicity-sensitive annihilators
  123. Polynomial tests and a convergent local Fourier quotient
  124. Projective exhaustion and the finite-chain tube receiver
  125. Ordinary finite-chain Morse handles and the exhaustion bound
  126. Compact supports, a closed submanifold and the normal circle
  127. Compact forms and the unshifted right cap
  128. Rational compact cohomology and the normal-circle connecting map
  129. The canonical rational compact connecting map and normal circle
  130. Smooth-wavefront convolution with a kernel singular only at zero
  131. Local Newtonian potentials and subharmonic regularity
  132. Poisson extension and subharmonic comparison
  133. Horizontal envelopes and their limiting slope
  134. Distributional limits of subharmonic functions
  135. Boundary measures and Green potentials in a half-space
  136. A linear profile under dilation
  137. Fourier endpoints and the asymptotic density of zeros
  138. Compact support and the Carleman condition
  139. Plurisubharmonic envelopes and support functions
  140. Constant upper envelopes and scaled plurisubharmonic averages
  141. Directional averages and additivity of growth indicators
  142. Fourier indicators and the convex hull of a measure's support
  143. Local compactness and Hartogs bounds
  144. Solving the Cauchy–Riemann equations with a weight
  145. Weighted holomorphic extensions and their growth
  146. Fourier transforms of analytic functionals on a real convex carrier
  147. Entire logarithms and the approximation of plurisubharmonic functions
  148. Complex Fourier estimates and weak exponential representations
  149. Four-condition complex weights and the topology of compact Fourier tests
  150. Weak solution representations near a characteristic variety
  151. Hermite interpolation and local division with a discriminant
  152. Exponential-polynomial representations on the characteristic hypersurfaces
  153. Compact smooth-test topology and its Fourier neighborhoods
  154. From complex solution representations to real regularity estimates
  155. Integral representations for arbitrary distributions
  156. Why complex Fourier weights need a construction
  157. Joint logarithmic-frequency limits
  158. Locating singularities through logarithmic Fourier strips
  159. Singularities and nonconvex logarithmic carriers
  160. Convolution and joint frequency carriers
  161. Changing centers in Fourier windows
  162. Frequency-selective singularities and smooth convolutions
  163. Slow decrease and entire Fourier division
  164. Recovering singularities from convolution profiles
  165. Isolated atoms and separated singularities
  166. Curved boundaries and directional Fourier carriers
  167. Exponential-polynomial solutions and convex approximation
  168. Analytic forcing and smooth convolution solutions
  169. Smooth forcing, invertible kernels and support confinement
  170. Support distances and admissible convolution domains
  171. Fréchet duality and smooth convolution solvability
  172. Convolution modulo smooth functions and compact singularity bounds
  173. Singular Fourier profiles and convex equation domains
  174. Solving convolution equations for arbitrary distribution data
  175. Finite-order convolution solutions and logarithmic windows
  176. Logarithmic zero retreat and reflected singularities
  177. Causal inverses and stability at a cone's vertex
  178. Zero-free cones turn slow decrease into reciprocal bounds
  179. Radial boundary kernels and regularity of convolution
  180. Compact multipliers and exponential solutions of convolution systems
  181. Analytic forcing without global analytic solutions
  182. Rational top forms detect cycles in a hypersurface complement
  183. Finite covers and normal circles in projective complements
  184. Equatorial cycles and the projective period test
  185. Angular distributions and their full Fourier transforms
  186. Analytic directions of holomorphic boundary values
  187. Dilation equations and tangential analytic singularities
  188. Pulling back and combining analytic singularities
  189. Gaussian packets and homogeneous Fourier directions
  190. Derivative sequences and microlocal regularity
  191. Analytic coefficients and one-sided uniqueness
  192. Real roots and their convex component
  193. One-sided root bounds and Taylor order
  194. Support normals and analytic singularities
  195. Holomorphic reciprocals and convolution regularity
  196. Harmonic potentials and real carriers
  197. Splitting real carriers and gluing hyperfunctions
  198. Polynomial reciprocals and tempered fundamental solutions
  199. Noncharacteristic directions and microlocal regularity
  200. Characteristic rays and directional kernels
  201. Resolving singular directions at a holomorphic boundary
  202. Why the singular carrier leaves an open set
  203. One contour for a compact family of equations
  204. Contour spaces and solvability for families of equations
  205. Power series and analytic lifting in Banach spaces
  206. Free resolutions for analytic operator kernels
  207. Banach-valued Dolbeault equations and polynomial approximation
  208. Finite cohomology bounds for analytic kernels
  209. Factorization and free presentations on convex products
  210. Reciprocal graphs and global analytic selection
  211. Holomorphic solutions on expanding contour scales
  212. Characteristic supporting surfaces and boundary curvature
  213. Homogeneous elliptic kernels and logarithmic scaling
  214. Quadratic boundary kernels and signature phases

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