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We study Gevrey properties and summability of power series in two variables that are formal solutions of a Cauchy problem for general linear partial differential equations with constant coefficients. In doing so, we extend earlier results in two articles of Balser and Lutz, Miyake, and Schäfke for the complex heat equation, as well as in a paper of Balser and Miyake, who have investigated the same questions for a certain class of linear PDE with constant coefficients subject to some restrictive assumptions. Moreover, we also present an example of a PDE where the formal solution of the Cauchy problem is not k-summable for whatever value of k, but instead is multisummable with two levels under corresponding conditions upon the Cauchy data. That this can occur has not been observed up to now.
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Balser, W. Summability of Formal Power-Series Solutions of Partial Differential Equations with Constant Coefficients. Journal of Mathematical Sciences 124, 5085–5097 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JOTH.0000047246.49736.b0
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