The mode solution of the wave equation in Kasner spacetimes and redshift

DOI10.1007/S11040-016-9233-XMaRDI QIDQ1663440zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oliver Lindblad Petersen

Publication date 21 August 2018

Published in Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02411

zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy problemwave equationgeneral relativityredshiftKasner spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave equation (35L05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Growth and boundedness of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C11)

Abstract: We study the mode solution to the Cauchy problem of the scalar wave equation $Boxvarphi=0$ in Kasner spacetimes. As a first result, we give the explicit mode solution in axisymmetric Kasner spacetimes, of which flat Kasner spacetimes are special cases. Furthermore, we give the small and large time asymptotics of the modes in general Kasner spacetimes. Generically, the modes in non-flat Kasner spacetimes grow logarithmically for small times, while the modes in flat Kasner spacetimes stay bounded for small times. For large times, however, the modes in general Kasner spacetimes oscillate with a polynomially decreasing amplitude. This gives a notion of large time frequency of the modes, which we use to model the wavelength of light rays in Kasner spacetimes. We show that the redshift one obtains in this way actually coincides with the usual cosmological redshift.

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