A Poisson Formula for the Wave Propagator on Schwarzschild-de Sitter Backgrounds

Abstract

This paper proposes a Poisson formula for the wave propagator of the Schwarzschild--de Sitter (SdS) metric. That is done by proving a Poisson formula relating wave propagators and scattering resonances for a class of non-compactly supported potentials on the real line. That class includes the Regge-Wheeler potentials obtained from separation of variables for SdS. The novelty lies in allowing non-compact supports -- all exact Poisson formulae of Lax-Phillips, Melrose, and other authors required compactness of the support of the perturbation. A key feature of the analysis is the presence of an exceptional class of potentials for which outgoing solutions may vanish at certain non-resonant frequencies. We identify and describe this class, which we call the resonant condition.