The formation of a weak null singularity in the interior of generic rotating black holes
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2026-04-07 v1 Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
math.MP
Abstract
Given a characteristic initial value problem with smooth data representing a dynamical event horizon settling down to that of Kerr in the subextremal, strictly rotating range with suitable upper and lower bounds, we prove that a weak null singularity forms, across which the spacetime metric is continuously extendible but not Lipschitz extendible. The bulk of the proof is a stability argument showing that a dynamical Teukolsky field can be approximated by a linear Teukolsky field, whose linear instability was proved in previous works.
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@article{arxiv.2604.04877,
title = {The formation of a weak null singularity in the interior of generic rotating black holes},
author = {Jonathan Luk and Jan Sbierski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.04877},
year = {2026}
}