06-62 Jean-Francois Burnol

Spacetime causality in the study of the Hankel tranform (67K, latex) Mar 13, 06

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Abstract. We study Hilbert space aspects of the Klein-Gordon equation in two-dimensional spacetime. We associate to its restriction to a spacelike wedge a scattering from the past light cone to the future light cone, which is then shown to be (essentially) the Hankel transform of order zero. We apply this to give a novel proof, solely based on the causality of this spatio-temporal wave propagation, of the theorem of de~Branges and V.~Rovnyak concerning Hankel pairs with a support property. We recover their isometric expansion as an application of Riemann's general method for solving Cauchy-Goursat problems of hyperbolic type.

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