The wave equation on asymptotically de Sitter-like spaces (Q1043489)

The author, in this investigation, acquires the asymptotic behavior of solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation on Lorentzian manifolds \((X^{\circ },g)\) which are de Sitter-like at infinity. Such manifolds are Lorentzian analogues of the so-called Riemannian conformally compact (or asymptotically hyperbolic) spaces. Under global assumptions on the (null) bicharacteristic flow, namely that the boundary of the compactification \(X\) is a union of two disjoint manifolds, \(Y_{\pm }\), and each bicharacteristic converges to one of these two manifolds as the parameter along the bicharacteristic goes to \(+\infty \), and to the other manifold as the parameter goes to \(-\infty \), we also define the scattering operator, and show that it is a Fourier integral operator associated to the bicharacteristic flow from \(Y_{+}\) to \(Y_{ - }\).