Global wave parametrices on globally hyperbolic spacetimes

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2020.124316zbMATH Open1443.83005arXiv2001.04164OpenAlexW3000033041WikidataQ115570245 ScholiaQ115570245MaRDI QIDQ776922FDOQ776922

Authors: Matteo Capoferri, Claudio Dappiaggi, Nicolò Drago 

Publication date: 13 July 2020

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

Abstract: In a recent work the first named author, Levitin and Vassiliev have constructed the wave propagator on a closed Riemannian manifold $M$ as a single oscillatory integral global both in space and in time with a distinguished complex-valued phase function. In this paper, first we give a natural reinterpretation of the underlying algorithmic construction in the language of ultrastatic Lorentzian manifolds. Subsequently we show that the construction carries over to the case of static backgrounds thanks to a suitable reduction to the ultrastatic scenario. Finally we prove that the overall procedure can be generalised to any globally hyperbolic spacetime with compact Cauchy surfaces. As an application, we discuss how, from our procedure, one can recover the local Hadamard expansion which plays a key role in all applications in quantum field theory on curved backgrounds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04164

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zbMATH Keywords

wave propagatorglobally hyperbolic spacetimesglobal Fourier integral operatorsquantum field theory on curved backgroundsultrastatic Lorentzian manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave equation (35L05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Pseudodifferential and Fourier integral operators on manifolds (58J40) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

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