Self-adjointness of the Dirac Hamiltonian for a class of non-uniformly elliptic boundary value problems

DOI10.4310/AMSA.2016.V1.N2.A2zbMATH Open1386.35042arXiv1512.00761MaRDI QIDQ679623FDOQ679623

Authors: Felix Finster, Christian Röken 

Publication date: 19 January 2018

Published in: Annals of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a boundary value problem for the Dirac equation in a smooth, asymptotically flat Lorentzian manifold admitting a Killing field which is timelike near and tangential to the boundary. A self-adjoint extension of the Dirac Hamiltonian is constructed. Our results also apply to the situation that the space-time includes horizons, where the Hamiltonian fails to be elliptic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00761

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zbMATH Keywords

Lorentzian manifoldDirac equationessentially self-adjoint extension of the Dirac Hamiltoniannon-uniformly elliptic boundary value problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Boundary value problems for systems of linear first-order PDEs (35F45)

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