TY - JOUR T1 - Initial Value Problem for General Quasilinear Hyperbolic Systems with Characteristics with Constant Multiplicity JO - Journal of Partial Differential Equations VL - 4 SP - 299 EP - 322 PY - 1997 DA - 1997/10 SN - 10 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jpde/5601.html KW - Global classical solution KW - general quasilinear hyperbolic system KW - characteristic with constant multiplicity AB - The authors consider the global existence and the blow-up phenomenon of classical solutions with small amplitude to the Cauchy problem for general quasilinear hyperbolic systems with characteristics with constant multiplicity and given some applications.