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The Feynman propagator for massive Klein-Gordon fields on radiative asymptotically flat spacetimes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-10-24 v2 Mathematical Physics Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

On a large class of asymptotically flat spacetimes which includes radiative perturbations of Minkowski space, we define a distinguished global Feynman propagator for massive Klein-Gordon fields by means of the microlocal approach to non-elliptic Fredholm theory, working in the de,sc-pseudodifferential algebra due to Sussman. We extend the limiting absorption principle (the "iεi\varepsilon prescription" for the Feynman propagator) to this setting. Motivated by the complicated Hamilton flow structure arising in this problem, we also prove a new localized radial point estimate in the spirit of Haber-Vasy which, under appropriate nondegeneracy assumptions, allows one to propagate microlocal regularity into a single radial point belonging to a larger radial set which can be a source, sink, or saddle for the Hamilton flow.

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@article{arxiv.2510.04308,
  title  = {The Feynman propagator for massive Klein-Gordon fields on radiative asymptotically flat spacetimes},
  author = {Mikhail Molodyk and András Vasy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.04308},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

76 pages, 8 figures. Minor changes based on comments received, and changed numbering of theorems, propositions, etc