Klein-Gordon Solutions on Non-Globally Hyperbolic Standard Static Spacetimes
Abstract
We construct a class of solutions to the Cauchy problem of the Klein-Gordon equation on any standard static spacetime. Specifically, we have constructed solutions to the Cauchy problem based on any self-adjoint extension (satisfying a technical condition: "acceptability") of (some variant of) the Laplace-Beltrami operator defined on test functions in an L2-space of the static hypersurface. The proof of the existence of this construction completes and extends work originally done by Wald. Further results include: the uniqueness of these solutions; their support properties; the construction of the space of solutions and the energy and symplectic form on this space; an analysis of certain symmetries on the space of solutions; and various examples of this method, including the construction of a non-bounded below acceptable self-adjoint extension generating the dynamics.
- Publication:
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Reviews in Mathematical Physics
- Pub Date:
- November 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1142/S0129055X12500286
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1204.4080
- Bibcode:
- 2012RvMaP..2450028B
- Keywords:
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- Klein–Gordon;
- standard static;
- non-globally hyperbolic;
- Mathematical Physics
- E-Print:
- doi:10.1142/S0129055X12500286