%0 Journal Article %T Characteristic boundary value problems: estimates from H1 to L2 %A Alessandro Morando %A Paolo Secchi %A Paola Trebeschi %J Mathematics %D 2013 %I arXiv %X 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 H1_tan, can be transformed into an L2 a priori estimate of the same problem. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.6448v1