A geometric perspective on the method of descent

DOI10.1007/S00220-018-3151-7MaRDI QIDQ1650150zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Qian Wang

Publication date 2 July 2018

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06458

zbMATH Keywords

method of descent

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45)

Abstract: We derive a representation formula for the tensorial wave equation $$ in globally hyperbolic Lorentzian spacetimes $$ by giving a geometric formulation of the method of descent which is applicable for any dimension.

Review text

This paper concerns the wave equation on a \((2+1)\) globally hyperbolic, smooth Lorentzian spacetime \((M, g)\). The approach is based on the relationship between the geometry of the null cones with the vertex \(p\) in \((3+1)\) spacetime and the causal past of the same vertex in \((2+1)\) spacetime. By uncovering the quantitative correspondence between connection coefficients of the null frames in \((3+1)\) spacetime and those of the triads in \((2+1)\) spacetime the null radius of injectivity is controlled by the causal radius of injectivity. The main result reduces in the flat case to the Poisson formula in Minkowski space.

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