Optimal Gevrey classes for the existence of solution operators for linear partial differential operators in three variables

For a constant coefficient linear partial differential operator acting on all infinitely differentiable functions or omega-ultradifferentiable functions of Beurling type on euclidean 3-space, the existence of a continuous linear solution operator is investigated. It is shown that there is an optimal weight m in the sense that a solution operator exists for a weight sigma if and only if omega = O(sigma), provided that such an operator exists for at least one weight. Furthermore, the optimal class is either a Gevrey class of rational exponent or the class of all infinitely differentiable functions. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.