Radiation Fields on Schwarzschild Spacetime Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • In this paper we define the radiation field for the wave equation on the Schwarzschild black hole spacetime. In this context it has two components: the rescaled restriction of the time derivative of a solution to null infinity and to the event horizon. In the process, we establish some regularity properties of solutions of the wave equation on the spacetime. In particular, we prove that the regularity of the solution across the event horizon and across null infinity is determined by the regularity and decay rate of the initial data at the event horizon and at infinity. We also show that the radiation field is unitary with respect to the conserved energy and prove support theorems for each piece of the radiation field. 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

published proceedings

  • Communications in Mathematical Physics

altmetric score

  • 1.5

author list (cited authors)

  • Baskin, D., & Wang, F.

citation count

  • 12

complete list of authors

  • Baskin, Dean||Wang, Fang

publication date

  • October 2014