Initial-value problems and signature change

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/5/024MaRDI QIDQ4881546zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. J. Alty, Christopher J. Fewster

Publication date 18 August 1998

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9501026

zbMATH Keywords

operator theoryKlein-Gordon equationinitial-value problemsignature-changing spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

Abstract: We make a rigorous study of classical field equations on a 2-dimensional signature changing spacetime using the techniques of operator theory. Boundary conditions at the surface of signature change are determined by forming self-adjoint extensions of the Schr"odinger Hamiltonian. We show that the initial value problem for the Klein--Gordon equation on this spacetime is ill-posed in the sense that its solutions are unstable. Furthermore, if the initial data is smooth and compactly supported away from the surface of signature change, the solution has divergent $L^2$-norm after finite time.

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