Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2003-10-02
Class.Quant.Grav. 21 (2004) 2651-2668
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
18 pages, 1 figure, AMSLaTeX; v2: expanded discussion of field quantization, new Proposition 3.1, revised Theorem 4.2, correct
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/21/11/010
Classically, the dynamics in a non-globally hyperbolic spacetime is ill posed. Previously, a prescription was given for defining dynamics in static spacetimes in terms of a second order operator acting on a Hilbert space defined on static slices. The present work extends this result by giving a similar prescription for defining dynamics in stationary spacetimes obeying certain mild assumptions. The prescription is defined in terms of a first order operator acting on a different Hilbert space from the one used in the static prescription. It preserves the important properties of the earlier one: the formal solution agrees with the Cauchy evolution within the domain of dependence, and smooth data of compact support always give rise to smooth solutions. In the static case, the first order formalism agrees with second order formalism (using specifically the Friedrichs extension). Applications to field quantization are also discussed.
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