Huygens' principle in Riemannian symmetric spaces (Q1891207)

Let \({\mathcal M} = G/K\) be a Riemannian symmetric space for a connected reductive Lie group \(G\), \(K\) a maximal compact subgroup, and suppose that \(\dim {\mathcal M} > 1\). Under the assumption that a maximal flat subspace \(A\) of \(\mathcal M\) is odd-dimensional, we derive a sharp exponential decay estimate for solutions of a certain constant shift of the wave equation on \(\mathcal M\). Here the dimension of \(\mathcal M\) itself need not be odd. In the case where \(A\) is even-dimensional, we find a sharp polynomial decay estimate. These estimates are valid in the case of compactly supported Cauchy data, and in the lacuna, a cone in \({\mathcal M} \times \mathbb{R}\) determined by the support radius of Cauchy data.