Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2016
The present paper is a continuation of [6] and [7] in which the principle of limiting absorption has been verified for symmetric systems of first order with long-range perturbations, but the operators considered there are of constant rank. On the other hand, operators with non-constant rank are also important in application as well as from a purely theoretical point of view. In this paper, we consider the linearized equation of magnetogasdynamics with long-range perturbation as an important example of such operators.