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We prove that for axially symmetric linear gravitational perturbations of the extreme Kerr black hole there exists a positive definite and conserved energy. This provides a basic criteria for linear stability in axial symmetry. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-22 Sergio Dain , Ivan Gentile de Austria

Localized energy estimates for the wave equation have been increasingly used to prove various other dispersive estimates. This article focuses on proving such localized energy estimates on $(1+4)$-dimensional Myers-Perry black hole…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Parul Laul , Jason Metcalfe , Shreyas Tikare , Mihai Tohaneanu

We identify a set of Hertz potentials for solutions to the vector wave equation on black hole spacetimes. The Hertz potentials yield Lorenz gauge electromagnetic vector potentials that represent physical solutions to the Maxwell equations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-16 Barry Wardell , Chris Kavanagh

We study the scattering of massless scalar waves by a Kerr black hole by letting plane monochromatic waves impinge on the black hole. We calculate the relevant scattering phase-shifts using the Pruefer phase-function method, which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 K Glampedakis , N Andersson

Using the Kerr-Schild formalism to solve the Einstein-Maxwell equations, we study energy transport due to time-dependent electromagnetic perturbations around a Kerr black hole, which may work as a mechanism to illuminate a disk located on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-14 Taichi Kobayashi , Kohei Onda , Akira Tomimatsu

We study the order ten polynomial equation satisfied by the radius of the spherical timelike orbits for a massive particle with a generic energy around a Kerr black hole. Even though the radii of the prograde and retrograde orbits at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-05 Aydin Tavlayan , Bayram Tekin

We compute the propagation and scattering of linear gravitational waves off a Schwarzschild black hole using a numerical code which solves a generalization of the Zerilli equation to a three dimensional cartesian coordinate system. Since…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 L. Rezzolla , A. M. Abrahams , T. W. Baumgarte , G. B. Cook , M. A. Scheel , S. L. Shapiro , S. A. Teukolsky

We compute numerically the absorption cross section of planar massless scalar waves impinging upon a Kerr-Newman black hole with different incidence angles. We investigate the influence of the black hole electric charge and angular momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-13 Luiz C. S. Leite , Carolina L. Benone , Luís C. B. Crispino

We prove global existence, boundedness and decay for small data solutions $\psi$ to a general class of quasilinear wave equations on Kerr black hole backgrounds in the full sub-extremal range $|a|<M$. The method extends our previous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-07 Mihalis Dafermos , Gustav Holzegel , Igor Rodnianski , Martin Taylor

This short paper derives the constant of motion of a scalar field in the gravitational field of a Kerr black hole which is associated to a Killing tensor of that space-time. In addition, there is found a related new symmetry operator S for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-21 Horst R. Beyer , Irina Holmes

We study the scattering of massive spin-half waves by a Schwarzschild black hole using analytical and numerical methods. We begin by extending a recent perturbation theory calculation to next order to obtain Born series for the differential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Sam Dolan , Chris Doran , Anthony Lasenby

Our aim in this work is to give some quantitative insight on the dispersive effects exhibited by solutions of a semiclassical Schr{\"o}dinger-type equation in R d. We describe quantitatively the localisation of the energy in a long-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Victor Chabu , Clotilde Fermanian-Kammerer , Fabricio Macià

We revisit the problem of scalar and electromagnetic waves impinging upon a Schwarzschild black hole from complex angular momentum techniques. We focus more particularly on the associated differential scattering cross sections. We derive an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-04 Antoine Folacci , Mohamed Ould El Hadj

We consider the propagation of a generic scalar field around a rotating and charged black hole. Using the partial wave method, we find, numerically, the total and partial absorption cross sections for different incidence angles. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-27 Carolina L. Benone , Luís C. B. Crispino

The Hamilton-Jacobi equation for test particles in the Kerr geometry is separable. Using action-angle variables, we establish several relations between various physical quantities that characterize bound timelike geodesic orbits around a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-21 Alexandre Le Tiec

The separated radial part of a massive complex scalar wave equation in the Kerr- Sen geometry is shown to satisfy the generalized spheroidal wave equation which is, in fact, a confluent Heun equation up to a multiplier. The Hawking…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Q. Wu , X. Cai

We prove certain weighted Strichartz estimates and use these to prove a sharp theorem for global existence of small amplitude solutions of $\square u= |u|^p$, thus verifying the so-called "Strauss conjecture".

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. Georgiev , Hans Lindblad , Christopher D. Sogge

We obtain remarkably simple integral bounds for axially symmetric linear perturbations for the extreme Kerr black hole in terms of conserved energies. From these estimates we deduce pointwise bounds for the perturbations outside the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Sergio Dain , Ivan Gentile de Austria

Motivated by the recent introduction of the Dirac bracket framework to compute spinning observables for the scattering of Kerr black holes, we initiate the study of conserved quantities from an on-shell amplitude perspective. We establish…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Dogan Akpinar , Graham R. Brown , Riccardo Gonzo , Mao Zeng

We investigate the scattering of a massless scalar field by a Kerr-Newman black hole, considering the case of on-axis incidence. We use the partial wave method to find numerical results for the scattering cross section, which we compare…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-11 Luiz C. S. Leite , Carolina L. Benone , Luís C. B. Crispino