Dynamics in non-globally-hyperbolic static spacetimes: II. General analysis of prescriptions for dynamics

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/16/318zbMATH Open1045.83014arXivgr-qc/0305012OpenAlexW3105872120MaRDI QIDQ4470736FDOQ4470736

Robert M. Wald, Akihiro Ishibashi

Publication date: 15 June 2004

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It was previously shown by one of us that in any static, non-globally-hyperbolic, spacetime it is always possible to define a sensible dynamics for a Klein-Gordon scalar field. The prescription proposed for doing so involved viewing the spatial derivative part, $A$, of the wave operator as an operator on a certain $L^2$ Hilbert space $mathcalH$ and then defining a positive, self-adjoint operator on $mathcalH$ by taking the Friedrichs extension (or other positive extension) of $A$. However, this analysis left open the possibility that there could be other inequivalent prescriptions of a completely different nature that might also yield satisfactory definitions of the dynamics of a scalar field. We show here that this is not the case. Specifically, we show that if the dynamics agrees locally with the dynamics defined by the wave equation, if it admits a suitable conserved energy, and if it satisfies certain other specified conditions, then it must correspond to the dynamics defined by choosing some positive, self-adjoint extension of $A$ on $mathcalH$. Thus, subject to our requirements, the previously given prescription is the only possible way of defining the dynamics of a scalar field in a static, non-globally-hyperbolic, spacetime. In a subsequent paper, this result will be applied to the analysis of scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational perturbations of anti-de Sitter spacetime. By doing so, we will determine all possible choices of boundary conditions at infinity in anti-de Sitter spacetime that give rise to sensible dynamics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0305012

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zbMATH Keywords

Hilbert spaceanti-de Sitter spacetimeKlein-Gordon scalar fieldnon-globally-hyperbolic spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50)

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