Massive wave propagation near null infinity
Abstract
We study, fully microlocally, the propagation of massive waves on the octagonal compactification 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 . The analysis is closely related to Hintz-Vasy's recent analysis of massless wave propagation at null infinity using the ``e,b-calculus'' on . We prove several elementary corollaries regarding the Klein-Gordon IVP. Our main technical tool is a fully symbolic pseudodifferential calculus, , the ``de,sc-calculus'' on . 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