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Spacelike initial data for black hole stability

Analysis of PDEs 2025-07-24 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We construct initial data suitable for the Kerr stability conjecture, that is, solutions to the constraint equations on a spacelike hypersurface with boundary entering the black hole horizon that are arbitrarily decaying perturbations of a Kerr initial data set. This results from a more general perturbative construction on any asymptotically flat initial data set with the topology of R3{r<1}\mathbb{R}^3\setminus\{r<1\} enjoying some analyticity near and at the boundary. In particular, we design a suitable mixed boundary condition for the elliptic operator of the conformal method in order to exclude the Killing initial data sets (KIDS).

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@article{arxiv.2405.02071,
  title  = {Spacelike initial data for black hole stability},
  author = {Allen Juntao Fang and Jérémie Szeftel and Arthur Touati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.02071},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

30 pages, matches the accepted version (in CMP)

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