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Self-Adjointness of the Dirac Hamiltonian for a Class of Non-Uniformly Elliptic Boundary Value Problems

Mathematical Physics 2016-07-27 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Analysis of PDEs math.MP

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.

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@article{arxiv.1512.00761,
  title  = {Self-Adjointness of the Dirac Hamiltonian for a Class of Non-Uniformly Elliptic Boundary Value Problems},
  author = {Felix Finster and Christian Röken},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.00761},
  year   = {2016}
}

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14 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure, minor improvements (published version)