We investigate the global well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for linear evolution partial differential equations
d71d5e66c2b70db455f6e86e6060"" title=""Click to view the MathML source"">P(t,x,∂t,∂x)u=f(t,x) with coefficients depending on
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,
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,
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or
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, unbounded for
|x|→+∞. We introduce the notion of a critical Gevrey-
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0<σcr
+∞ for
P. Typically, the coefficients are supposed to be analytic-Gevrey regular in
x while with respect to
t they are holomorphic (respectively, continuous) if
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(respectively,
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). Coefficients with singularity at
t=0 of the type
O(|t|−ρ),
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. A description of the Gevrey critical index is given by means of Newton polyhedra geometry. We propose a unified novel approach, based on deriving convergence of parameter depending
Picard successive approximations, provided contraction perturbed with singular Gronwall type estimates hold. The crucial ingredient consists of a suitable choice of multi-parameter scales of Banach function spaces and detailed analysis of integral equations in such spaces. The outcome is a series of new Cauchy–Kovalevskaya–Nagumo type theorems for global in time well-posedness of the Cauchy problem in
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for both inductive and projective Gevrey spaces of index
σ
σcr, as well as in the
C∞ class if
σcr=+∞, provided the coefficients of the
σ-“dominating part” of
P are polynomials obeying certain conditions which turn out to be sharp for space dimension
n=1. For
n
2 we show new global Cauchy–Kovalevskaya–Nagumo type theorems allowing arbitrary growth with respect to
x of some coefficients for class of operators provided they obey some global reduction to Poincaré type normal form. We recapture as particular cases the main results of [D. Gourdin, M. Mechab, Solutions globales d'un problème de Cauchy linéaire, J. Funct. Anal. 202 (1) (2003) 123–146] in projective Gevrey spaces for Kovalevskaya and hyperbolic equations under weaker restrictions.