Fundamental solutions for the wave operator on static Lorentzian manifolds with timelike boundary

DOI10.1007/S11005-019-01173-ZzbMATH Open1428.65107arXiv1804.03434OpenAlexW2798192365WikidataQ128085952 ScholiaQ128085952MaRDI QIDQ2329422FDOQ2329422

Nicolò Drago, Claudio Dappiaggi, Hugo R. C. Ferreira

Publication date: 17 October 2019

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the wave operator on static, Lorentzian manifolds with timelike boundary and we discuss the existence of advanced and retarded fundamental solutions in terms of boundary conditions. By means of spectral calculus we prove that answering this question is equivalent to studying the self-adjoint extensions of an associated elliptic operator on a Riemannian manifold with boundary $(M,g)$. The latter is diffeomorphic to any, constant time hypersurface of the underlying background. In turn, assuming that $(M,g)$ is of bounded geometry, this problem can be tackled within the framework of boundary triples. These consist of the assignment of two surjective, trace operators from the domain of the adjoint of the elliptic operator into an auxiliary Hilbert space $mathsfh$, which is the third datum of the triple. Self-adjoint extensions of the underlying elliptic operator are in one-to-one correspondence with self-adjoint operators $Theta$ on $mathsfh$. On the one hand, we show that, for a natural choice of boundary triple, each $Theta$ can be interpreted as the assignment of a boundary condition for the original wave operator. On the other hand, we prove that, for each such $Theta$, there exists a unique advanced and retarded fundamental solution. In addition, we prove that these share the same structural property of the counterparts associated to the wave operator on a globally hyperbolic spacetime.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03434

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental solutionsboundary triplesglobally hyperbolic spactimes with timelike boundary

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental solutions, Green's function methods, etc. for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N80) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

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