The Klein-Gordon equation in the anti-de Sitter cosmology

DOI10.1016/J.MATPUR.2011.07.004MaRDI QIDQ651325zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 12 December 2011

Published in Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. Neuvième Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.1925

anti-de Sitter space asymptotics brane cosmology Klein-Gordon equation Poincaré patch

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) PDEs in connection with mechanics of particles and systems of particles (35Q70) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational waves (83C35) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: This paper deals with the Klein-Gordon equation on the Poincar'e chart of the 5-dimensional Anti-de Sitter universe. When the mass

m u

is larger than

- 14

, the Cauchy problem is well posed despite the loss of global hyperbolicity due to the time-like horizon. We express the finite energy solutions in the form of a continuous Kaluza-Klein tower and we deduce a uniform decay as

m i d t m i d^{- 32}

. We investigate the case

m u = u^{2} - 1 2

,

u i n N N^{*}

, which encompasses the gravitational fluctuations,

u = 4

, and the electromagnetic waves,

u = 2

. The propagation of the wave front set shows that the horizon acts like a perfect mirror. We establish that the smooth solutions decay as

m i d t m i d^{- 2 - s q r t m u + 14}

, and we get global

L^{p}

estimates of Strichartz type. When

u

is even, there appears a lacuna and the equipartition of the energy occurs at finite time for the compactly supported initial data, although the Huygens principle fails. We adress the cosmological model of the negative tension Minkowski brane, on which a Robin boundary condition is imposed. We prove the hyperbolic mixed problem is well-posed and the normalizable solutions can be expanded into a discrete Kaluza-Klein tower. We establish some

L^{2} - L^{i n f t y}

estimates in suitable weighted Sobolev spaces.

Review text

This paper is devoted to the Klein-Gordon equation on the Poincaré chart of the 5-dimensional anti-de Sitter universe. The anti-de Sitter space in \((4+1)\) dimensions of constant curvature \(-k<0\) can be represented as the hyperquadratic \[ AdS^5=\biggl\{X: X\in\mathbb{R}^6, \;X_0^2+X_5^2-\sum\limits_{i=1}^{4}X_i^2=\frac{1}{k^2}\biggr\}, \] embedded in the \((4+2)\)-dimensional flat space \(\mathbb{R}^6\) with metric \[ ds^2=dX_0^2+dX_5^2-\sum\limits_{i=1}^{4}X_i^2 . \] This metric is a maximally symmetric solution without singularity of the Einstein equations in vacuum, with a negative cosmological constant. Moreover, this solution is unique for the given topology, according to the Birkhoff theorem. The gravitational waves are solutions of the linearized Einstein equations, which are simply reduced to the d'Alembertian in \(AdS^5\) \[ \square_gu=0, \;\;\;\;\square_g\equiv \frac{1}{\sqrt{|g|}}\frac{\partial }{\partial x^{\mu }} \biggl( \sqrt{|g|} \;g^{\mu\nu } \biggr)\frac{\partial }{\partial x^{\nu }}. \] More generally, the author considers the Klein-Gordon equation \[ \square_gu+\lambda k^2u=0, \;\;\;\;\lambda\in\mathbb{R}. \] If the mass \(\mu \) is larger than \(-1/4\), then the Cauchy problem is well-posed despite the loss of global hyperbolicity due to the time-like horizon. It turns out that the finite energy solution can be expressed in the form of a continuous Kaluza-Klein tower. Thus he deduces a uniform decay as \(|t|^{-3/2}\). The case \(\mu =(\nu^2-1)/2\), \(\nu\in \mathbb{N}^{\ast }\), is investigated in detail. The propagation of the wave front set is studied, and as a result it turns out that the horizon acts like a perfect mirror. It is shown that the smooth solution decay exists. In cosmology, the Minkowski space-time \(\mathbb{R}_t\times \mathbb{R}_{\mathbf x}^{3}\) is considered as a brane that is the boundary \(\mathbb{R}_t\times \mathbb{R}_{\mathbf x}^{3}\times \{z=1\}\) of a part \(\mathcal{B}\) of \(AdS^5\) called the bulk. The case of the Minkowski brane with a negative tension is considered under Robin boundary conditions. An important conclusion is that the hyperbolic mixed problem is well-posed and the normalizable solutions can be expanded into a discrete Kaluza-Klein tower. Some \(L^2\setminus L^{\infty }\) estimates in suitable weighted Sobolev spaces are established.

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