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The Dirac system on the Anti-de Sitter Universe

Mathematical Physics 2008-11-26 v3 Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

We investigate the global solutions of the Dirac equation on the Anti-de-Sitter Universe. Since this space is not globally hyperbolic, the Cauchy problem is not, {\it a priori}, well-posed. Nevertheless we can prove that there exists unitary dynamics, but its uniqueness crucially depends on the ratio beween the mass MM of the field and the cosmological constant Λ>0\Lambda>0 : it appears a critical value, Λ/12\Lambda/12, which plays a role similar to the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound for the scalar fields. When M2Λ/12M^2\geq \Lambda/12 there exists a unique unitary dynamics. In opposite, for the light fermions satisfying M2<Λ/12M^2<\Lambda/12, we construct several asymptotic conditions at infinity, such that the problem becomes well-posed. In all the cases, the spectrum of the hamiltonian is discrete. We also prove a result of equipartition of the energy.

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@article{arxiv.0706.1315,
  title  = {The Dirac system on the Anti-de Sitter Universe},
  author = {Alain Bachelot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.1315},
  year   = {2008}
}
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