On a Priori Energy Estimates for Characteristic Boundary Value Problems

Motivated by the study of certain non linear free-boundary value problems for hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations arising in Magneto-Hydrodynamics, in this paper we show that an a priori estimate of the solution to certain boundary value problems, in the conormal Sobolev space \(H^1_{ tan}\) , can be transformed into an \(L^2\) a priori estimate of the same problem.