"Spectral Theory and Mathematical Physics"

In honor of Vladimir Georgescu



Cergy-Pontoise, June 21-24, 2016.





Photo Credit: Cergy - Axe majeur, www.cergypontoise.fr/jcms/p2_85721/fr/le-patrimoine-moderne





Program

Spyros Alexakis
Kaïs Ammari
Jean-Marc Bouclet
Jan Derezinski

Clotilde Fermanian Kammerer

Christian Gérard

Sylvain Golénia

Dietrich Häfner

Matti Lassas

Mathieu Lewin

Jacob Schach Moller

Francis Nier

Victor Nistor

Benoit Pausader



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Jan Derezinski: Propagators on curved spacetimes

Abstract: The Klein-Gordon equation has several natural Green's functions, often called propagators. The so-called Feynman propagator, used in quantum field theory, has a clear definition on static spacetimes. I will discuss, partly on a heuristic level, its possible generalizations to the non-static case. I will also describe a curious open problem about the self-adjointness of the Klein-Gordon operator.