Unexpected Spectral Asymptotics for Wave Equations on certain Compact Spacetimes

DOI10.1007/S11854-018-0059-2arXiv1407.2517MaRDI QIDQ6253003FDOQ6253003

Robert S. Strichartz, Jonathan Fox

Publication date: 9 July 2014

Abstract: We study the spectral asymptotics of wave equations on certain compact spacetimes where some variant of the Weyl asymptotic law is valid. The simplest example is the spacetime $S^{1}imes{S}^2$. For the Laplacian on $S^{1}imes{S}^2$ the Weyl asymptotic law gives a growth rate $O(s^{3/2})$ for the eigenvalue counting function $$. For the wave operator there are two corresponding eigenvalue counting functions $$ and they both have a growth rate of $O(s^2)$. More precisely there is a leading term $fracp{i}^{2}4s^2$ and a correction term of $a{s}^{3/2}$ where the constant $a$ is different for $N^{pm}$. These results are not robust, in that if we include a speed of propagation constant to the wave operator the result depends on number theoretic properties of the constant, and generalizations to $S^{1}imes{S}^q$ are valid for $q$ even but not $q$ odd. We also examine some related examples.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave equation (35L05) Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P20)

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