TY - JOUR AU1 - Ávila Silva, Fernando AU2 - Gonzalez, Rafael AU3 - Kirilov, Alexandre AU4 - Medeira, Cleber AB - We show that an obstruction of number-theoretical nature appears as a necessary condition for the global hypoellipticity of the pseudo-differential operator $$L=D_t+(a+ib)(t)P(D_x)$$ L = D t + ( a + i b ) ( t ) P ( D x ) on $$\mathbb {T}^1_t\times \mathbb {T}_x^{N}$$ T t 1 × T x N . This condition is also sufficient when the symbol $$p(\xi )$$ p ( ξ ) of $$P(D_x)$$ P ( D x ) has at most logarithmic growth. If $$p(\xi )$$ p ( ξ ) has super-logarithmic growth, we show that the global hypoellipticity of L depends on the change of sign of certain interactions of the coefficients with the symbol $$p(\xi ).$$ p ( ξ ) . Moreover, the interplay between the order of vanishing of coefficients with the order of growth of $$p(\xi )$$ p ( ξ ) plays a crucial role in the global hypoellipticity of L. We also describe completely the global hypoellipticity of L in the case where $$P(D_x)$$ P ( D x ) is homogeneous. Additionally, we explore the influence of irrational approximations of a real number in the global hypoellipticity. TI - Global Hypoellipticity for a Class of Pseudo-differential Operators on the Torus JF - Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications DO - 10.1007/s00041-018-09645-x DA - 2018-10-12 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/global-hypoellipticity-for-a-class-of-pseudo-differential-operators-on-7m48m0KcX4 SP - 1717 EP - 1758 VL - 25 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -