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We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the lower bound {fx55-01} to hold for any compact setK ⊂X, an open set ofR n, andP =P* ∃ ψ 4 phg (X) with p(x, ξ) ~ q 22 + p3 + p2 + ..., q2 beingtransversally elliptic with respect to the characteristic manifold Σ =q 2 -1 (0).
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Parenti, C., Parmeggiani, A. A necessary and sufficient condition for a lower bound for fourth-order pseudodifferential operators. J. Anal. Math. 69, 55–65 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02787101
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