The scattering map on Oppenheimer-Snyder space-time (Q2191069)

The author analyses the boundedness of solutions, \(\phi\), of the linear wave equation in the Oppenheimer-Snyder model of gravitational collapse, in both the case of a reflective dust cloud and a permeating dust cloud. He then proceeds to define the scattering map on this space-time and looks at the implications of his boundedness results on this scattering map. Specifically, it is shown that the energy of \(\phi\) remains uniformly bounded going forwards in time and going backwards in time for both the reflecting and permeating cases. It is then shown that the scattering map is bounded going forwards, but not backwards. Hence, the scattering map is not surjective onto the space of finite energy on \(I^+ \cup \, H^+\). Thus, there does not exist a backwards scattering map from finite energy radiation fields on \(I^+ \cup \, H^+\) to finite energy radiation fields on \(I^-\). The author then contrasts this with the the situation for scattering in pure Schwarzschild space-time.