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The geometry of solutions to the higher dimensional Einstein vacuum equations presents aspects that are absent in four dimensions, one of the most remarkable being the existence of stably trapped null geodesics in the exterior of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-09 Gabriele Benomio

We study a sufficient condition to prove the stability of a black hole when the master equation for linear perturbation takes the form of the Schr\"odinger equation. If the potential contains a small negative region, usually, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-06 Masashi Kimura

In this paper, we introduce a class of spacetimes $\left(\mathcal{M},g\right)$ which satisfy the vacuum Einstein equations and dynamically approach a Schwarzschild solution of mass $M$, a class we shall call \emph{ultimately…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-18 Gustav Holzegel

In this article, the superradiation stability of Kerr-Newman black holes is discussed by introducing the condition used in Kerr black holes y into them. Moreover, the motion equation of the minimal coupled scalar perturbation in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-26 Wen-Xiang Chen , Yao-Guang Zheng

We develop a definitive physical-space scattering theory for the scalar wave equation on Kerr exterior backgrounds in the general subextremal case |a|<M. In particular, we prove results corresponding to "existence and uniqueness of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-28 Mihalis Dafermos , Igor Rodnianski , Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman

In this second paper of our series started with \cite{Berens2024}, we investigate linearized gravitational perturbations of a rotating Kerr black hole in a non-asymptotically flat spacetime with (anti-)de Sitter boundary conditions. Here,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Roman Berens , Trevor Gravely , Alexandru Lupsasca

The tachyonic instability of the Kerr black holes is analyzed in the Einstein-scalar theory with the quadratic scalar couplings to two topological terms which are parity-even Gauss-Bonnet and parity-odd Chern-Simons terms. For positive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-28 De-Cheng Zou , Yun Soo Myung

We present a new analytic approach for the study of late time evolution of linear test-fields, propagating on the exterior of black holes. This method provides a calculation scheme applicable to Kerr black holes (for which case no analytic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Leor Barack

General relativity admits a plethora of exact compact object solutions. The augmentation of Einstein's action with non-minimal coupling terms leads to modified theories with rich structure, which, in turn, provide non-trivial solutions with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-31 Nikos Chatzifotis , Christoforos Vlachos , Kyriakos Destounis , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos

It has long been suggested that solutions to linear scalar wave equation $$\Box_g\phi=0$$ on a fixed subextremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime with non-vanishing charge are generically singular at the Cauchy horizon. We prove that generic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-01 Jonathan Luk , Sung-Jin Oh

The evolution of small perturbations around rotating black branes and strings, which are low energy solutions of string theory, are investigated. For simplicity, we concentrate on the Kerr solution times transverse flat extra dimensions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-05 Vitor Cardoso , José P. S. Lemos

Spinning Kerr black holes are known to be superradiantly unstable to massive scalar perturbations. We here prove that the instability regime of the composed Kerr-black-hole-massive-scalar-field system is bounded from above by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-22 Shahar Hod

The nonlinear stability of Kerr-Newman black holes (KNBHs) is investigated by performing numerical simulations within the full Einstein-Maxwell theory. We take as initial data a KNBH with mass $M$, angular momentum to mass ratio $a$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Miguel Zilhão , Vitor Cardoso , Carlos Herdeiro , Luis Lehner , Ulrich Sperhake

We present a new proof of linear stability of the Schwarzschild solution to gravitational perturbations. Our approach employs the system of linearised gravity in the new geometric gauge of \cite{benomio_kerr}, specialised to the $|a|=0$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-02 Gabriele Benomio

The problem of stability of rotating black holes is the subject of a long standing research program since the 1960s and remains an unresolved problem in general relativity. A major obstacle in the black hole stability problem is that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-06 Nishanth Gudapati

In this paper we consider the possible existence of unstable axisymmetric modes in Kerr space times, resulting from exponentially growing solutions of the Teukolsky equation. We describe a transformation that casts the radial equation that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Gustavo Dotti , Reinaldo J. Gleiser , Ignacio Francisco Ranea-Sandoval , Héctor Vucetich

We discuss the stability of (charged) static black holes in higher-dimensional spacetimes with and without cosmological constant by using gauge-invariant master equations of the Schroedinger equation type for black hole perturbations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hideo Kodama , Akihiro Ishibashi

We uncover hidden spectral symmetries of the Teukolsky equation in Kerr(-de Sitter) black holes, recently conjectured by Aminov, Grassi and Hatsuda (arXiv: 2006.06111 and arXiv: 2007.07906, 2020) in the zero cosmological constant case.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-01 Marc Casals , Rita Teixeira da Costa

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

We study the Gregory-Laflamme instability of a 5-dimensional slowly rotating black string in which the 4-dimensional section is described by the Kerr black hole. We treat the rotation in a perturbative way introducing a small parameter for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-07 Chul-Moon Yoo , Sugure Tanzawa , Misao Sasaki