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Solutions of the wave equation bounded at the Big Bang

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-03-19 v3 Mathematical Physics Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

By solving a singular initial value problem, we prove the existence of solutions of the wave equation gϕ=0\Box_g\phi=0 which are bounded at the Big Bang in the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker cosmological models. More precisely, we show that given any function AH3(Σ)A \in H^3(\Sigma) (where Σ=Rn,Sn\Sigma=\mathbb{R}^n, \mathbb{S}^n or Hn\mathbb{H}^n models the spatial hypersurfaces) there exists a unique solution ϕ\phi of the wave equation converging to AA in H1(Σ)H^1(\Sigma) at the Big Bang, and whose time derivative is suitably controlled in L2(Σ)L^2(\Sigma).

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@article{arxiv.1809.09633,
  title  = {Solutions of the wave equation bounded at the Big Bang},
  author = {Pedro M. Girão and José Natário and Jorge Drumond Silva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.09633},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

11 pages, 1 figure; v2: minor changes; v3: references updated, matches final published version