Analytic Hypoellipticity at Non-Symplectic Poisson-Treves Strata for Sums of Squares of Vector Fields

Antonio Bove, David S. Tartakoff

Published 2006-09-28Version 1

We consider an operator $ P $ which is a sum of squares of vector fields with analytic coefficients. The operator has a non-symplectic characteristic manifold, but the rank of the symplectic form $ \sigma $ is not constant on $ \Char P $. Moreover the Hamilton foliation of the non symplectic stratum of the Poisson-Treves stratification for $ P $ consists of closed curves in a ring-shaped open set around the origin. We prove that then $ P $ is analytic hypoelliptic on that open set. And we note explicitly that the local Gevrey hypoellipticity for $ P $ is $ G^{k+1} $ and that this is sharp.