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Massive wave propagation near null infinity

Analysis of PDEs 2024-12-25 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study, fully microlocally, the propagation of massive waves on the octagonal compactification O=[R1,d;I;1/2]\mathbb{O}=[\overline{\mathbb{R}^{1,d}};\mathscr{I};1/2] of asymptotically Minkowski spacetime, which allows a detailed analysis both at timelike and spacelike infinity (as previously investigated using Parenti-Shubin-Melrose's sc-calculus) and, more novelly, at null infinity, denoted I\mathscr{I}. The analysis is closely related to Hintz-Vasy's recent analysis of massless wave propagation at null infinity using the ``e,b-calculus'' on O\mathbb{O}. We prove several elementary corollaries regarding the Klein-Gordon IVP. Our main technical tool is a fully symbolic pseudodifferential calculus, Ψde,sc(O)\Psi_{\mathrm{de,sc}}(\mathbb{O}), the ``de,sc-calculus'' on O\mathbb{O}. The `de' refers to the structure (``double edge'') of the calculus at null infinity, and the `sc' refers to the structure (``scattering'') at the other boundary faces. We relate this structure to the hyperbolic coordinates used in other studies of the Klein-Gordon equation. Unlike hyperbolic coordinates, the de,sc-boundary fibration structure is Poincar\'e invariant.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2305.01119,
  title  = {Massive wave propagation near null infinity},
  author = {Ethan Sussman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.01119},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

95 pages, 13 figures. Significant expository changes, handful of mistakes fixed

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