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We derive the equation governing the axial-perturbations in the space-time of a non-rotating uncharged primordial black hole (PBH), produced in early Universe, whose metric is taken as the generalized McVittie metric. The generalized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-26 Arnab Sarkar , Sabiruddin Molla , K. Rajesh Nayak

We study the gravitational perturbations of black holes in quadratic gravity, in which the Einstein-Hilbert term is supplemented by quadratic terms in the curvature tensor. In this class of theories, the Schwarzschild solution can coexist…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-05 Georgios Antoniou , Leonardo Gualtieri , Paolo Pani

We continue our series of papers where we study the quasinormal modes, and their excitation, of black holes in the simplest beyond general relativity model in which first-principle calculations are tractable: a nonrotating black hole in an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Hector O. Silva , Giovanni Tambalo , Kostas Glampedakis , Kent Yagi

We investigate the classical stability of the higher-dimensional Schwarzschild black holes against linear perturbations, in the framework of a gauge-invariant formalism for gravitational perturbations of maximally symmetric black holes,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Akihiro Ishibashi , Hideo Kodama

The Einstein's linear equation of a small perturbation in a space-time with a homogeneous section of low dimension, is studied. For every harmonic mode of the horizon, there are two solutions which behave differently at large distance $r$.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-14 Jose L. Martinez-Morales

We resume former discussions of the conformally invariant wave equation on a Schwarzschild background, with a particular focus on the behaviour of solutions near the 'cylinder', i.e. Friedrich's representation of spacelike infinity. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-23 Jörg Hennig

We have recently constructed a numerical code that evolves a spherically symmetric spacetime using a hyperbolic formulation of Einstein's equations. For the case of a Schwarzschild black hole, this code works well at early times, but…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Mark A. Scheel , Thomas W. Baumgarte , Gregory B. Cook , Stuart L. Shapiro , Saul A. Teukolsky

In this paper we pursue the study of linear perturbations around a Schwarzschild black hole in a generalized Einstein-Cartan theory of gravity, called torsion bigravity. This theory contains both massless and massive spin-2 excitations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Vasilisa Nikiforova

The excitation of a black hole by infalling matter or radiation has been studied for a long time, mostly in linear perturbation theory. In this paper we study numerically the response of a Schwarzschild black hole to an incoming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Jörg Frauendiener , Chris Stevens

We prove the nonlinear stability of the Schwarzschild spacetime under axially symmetric polarized perturbations, i.e. solutions of the Einstein vacuum equations for asymptotically flat $1+3$ dimensional Lorentzian metrics which admit a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-24 Sergiu Klainerman , Jeremie Szeftel

We study linear perturbations around a static and spherically symmetric black hole solution in spatially covariant gravity with just two tensorial degrees of freedom. In this theory, gravity modification is characterized by a single…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-20 Jin Saito , Tsutomu Kobayashi

In a recent seminal paper \cite{D-H-R} of Dafermos, Holzegel and Rodnianski the linear stability of the Schwarzschild family of black hole solutions to the Einstein vacuum equations was established by imposing a double null gauge. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-03 Thomas Johnson

This is the first part of a series of papers proving the nonlinear stability of a one-parameter family of continuously self-similar $C^{1,\alpha}$ naked singularity solutions, with $0<\alpha\ll1$, to the spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-18 Weihao Zheng

The theory of gauge-invariant non-spherical metric perturbations of Schwarzschild black hole spacetimes is now well established. Yet, as different notations and conventions have been used throughout the years, the literature on the subject…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-08 Alessandro Nagar , Luciano Rezzolla

We prove the linear stability of slowly rotating Kerr black holes as solutions of the Einstein vacuum equation: linearized perturbations of a Kerr metric decay at an inverse polynomial rate to a linearized Kerr metric plus a pure gauge…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Dietrich Häfner , Peter Hintz , András Vasy

We extend the formulation for perturbations of maximally symmetric black holes in higher dimensions developed by the present authors in a previous paper (hep-th/0305147) to a charged black hole background whose horizon is described by an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hideo Kodama , Akihiro Ishibashi

The Einstein constraint equations describe the space of initial data for the evolution equations, dictating how space should curve within spacetime. Under certain assumptions, the constraints reduce to a scalar quasilinear parabolic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-20 Phillipo Lappicy

In absence of explicit solutions of the perturbation equation of a static symmetrical homogeneous space-time, the best we can do is to construct a {\it quasi-}transformation. In this framework, we solve the perturbation equation with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-29 Jose L. Martinez-Morales

Starting from Post-Newtonian predictions for a system of $N$ infalling masses from the infinite past, we formulate and solve a scattering problem for the system of linearised gravity around Schwarzschild as introduced in [DHR19]. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Lionor Kehrberger , Hamed Masaood

We show that a spacetime satisfying the linearized vacuum Einstein equations around a type D background is generically of type I, and that the splittings of the Principal Null Directions (PNDs) and of the degenerate eigenvalue of the Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-30 Bernardo Araneda , Gustavo Dotti