Essential Self-Adjointness of Klein-Gordon Type Operators on Asymptotically Static, Cauchy-Compact Spacetimes

Abstract

Let $X=\mathbb{R}\times M$ be the spacetime, where $M$ is a closed manifold equipped with a Riemannian metric $g$, and we consider a symmetric Klein-Gordon type operator $P$ on $X$, which is asymptotically converges to $\partial_t^2-\triangle_g$ as $|t|\to\infty$, where $\triangle_g$ is the Laplace-Beltrami operator on $M$. We prove the essential self-adjointness of $P$ on $C_0^\infty(X)$. The idea of the proof is closely related to a recent paper by the authors on the essential self-adjointness for Klein-Gordon operators on asymptotically flat spaces.