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Kerr stability in external regions

Analysis of PDEs 2024-04-16 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Differential Geometry

Abstract

In 2003, Klainerman and Nicol\`o \cite{Kl-Ni} proved the stability of Minkowski in the case of the exterior of an outgoing null cone. Relying on the method used in \cite{Kl-Ni}, Caciotta and Nicol\`o \cite{Ca-Ni} proved the stability of Kerr spacetime in external regions, i.e. outside an outgoing null cone far away from the Kerr event horizon. In this paper, we give a new proof of \cite{Ca-Ni}. Compared to \cite{Ca-Ni}, we reduce the number of derivatives needed in the proof, simplify the treatment of the last slice, and provide a unified treatment of the decay of initial data which contains in particular the initial data considered by Klainerman and Szeftel in \cite{KS:main}. Also, concerning the treatment of curvature estimates, similar to \cite{ShenMink}, we replace the vectorfield method used in \cite{Kl-Ni,Ca-Ni} by rpr^p-weighted estimates introduced by Dafermos and Rodnianski in \cite{Da-Ro}.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2303.12758,
  title  = {Kerr stability in external regions},
  author = {Dawei Shen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.12758},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

119 pages, 7 figures, accepted in Annals of PDE

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