Classical and quantum implications of the causality structure of two-dimensional space–times with degenerate metrics

DOI10.1063/1.531755zbMATH Open0863.53067arXivgr-qc/9606065OpenAlexW2085404314MaRDI QIDQ5284672FDOQ5284672

Authors: Jonathan Gratus, R. W. Tucker 

Publication date: 28 May 1997

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The causality structure of two-dimensional manifolds with degenerate metrics is analysed in terms of global solutions of the massless wave equation. Certain novel features emerge. Despite the absence of a traditional Lorentzian Cauchy surface on manifolds with a Euclidean domain it is possible to uniquely determine a global solution (if it exists), satisfying well defined matching conditions at the degeneracy curve, from Cauchy data on certain spacelike curves in the Lorentzian region. In general, however, no global solution satisfying such matching conditions will be consistent with this data. Attention is drawn to a number of obstructions that arise prohibiting the construction of a bounded operator connecting asymptotic single particle states. The implications of these results for the existence of a unitary quantum field theory are discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9606065

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zbMATH Keywords

Laplace equationsignature changetwo-dimensional spacetimedomain of dependence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Ill-posed problems for PDEs (35R25) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75)

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