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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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Jonathan Luk , Jan Sbierski

We prove the existence of one quarter supersymmetric type IIB configurations that arise as non-trivial scaling solutions of the standard five dimensional Kerr-AdS black holes by the explicit construction of its Killing spinors. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Mirjam Cvetic , Peng Gao , Joan Simón

Kerr black holes with synchronised hair [arXiv:1403.2757, arXiv:1603.02687] are a counter example to the no hair conjecture, in General Relativity minimally coupled to simple matter fields (with mass $\mu$) obeying all energy conditions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 Juan Carlos Degollado , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

We consider the classification of asymptotically flat, stationary, vacuum black hole spacetimes in four and five dimensions, that admit one and two commuting axial Killing fields respectively. It is well known that the Einstein equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-05 James Lucietti , Fred Tomlinson

In this paper we prove integrated energy and pointwise decay estimates for solutions of the vacuum linearized Einstein equation on the domain of outer communication of the Kerr black hole spacetime. The estimates are valid for the full…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Lars Andersson , Thomas Bäckdahl , Pieter Blue , Siyuan Ma

We present the first example of a linearized gravitational instability of an asymptotically flat vacuum black hole. We study perturbations of a Myers-Perry black hole with equal angular momenta in an odd number of dimensions. We find no…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-03 Oscar J. C. Dias , Pau Figueras , Ricardo Monteiro , Harvey S. Reall , Jorge E. Santos

Reissner--Nordstr\"om black holes have two static regions: $r > \ro$ and $0 < r < \ri$, where $\ri$ and $\ro$ are the inner and outer horizon radii. The stability of the exterior static region has been established long time ago. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-28 Gustavo Dotti , Reinaldo J. Gleiser

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

The lack of a positive-definite and conserved energy is a serious obstacle in the black hole stability problem. In this work, we will show that there exists a positive-definite and conserved Hamiltonian energy for axially symmetric linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Nishanth Gudapati

Massive bosonic fields of arbitrary spin are predicted by general extensions of the Standard Model. It has been recently shown that there exists a family of bimetric theories of gravity - including massive gravity - which are free of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-12 Richard Brito , Vitor Cardoso , Paolo Pani

A massive vector boson field in the vicinity of a rotating black hole is known to suffer an instability, due to the exponential amplification of (co-rotating, low-frequency) bound states by black hole superradiance. Here we calculate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-12 Sam R. Dolan

In electrovacuum stationary, asymptotically flat black holes in scalar-tensor theories of gravity are described by the Kerr-Newman family of solutions, just as in general relativity. We show that there exist two mechanisms which can render…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-23 Vitor Cardoso , Isabella P. Carucci , Paolo Pani , Thomas P. Sotiriou

We derive the equations governing the linear stability of Kerr-Newman spacetime to coupled electromagnetic-gravitational perturbations. The equations generalize the celebrated Teukolsky equation for curvature perturbations of Kerr, and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-14 Elena Giorgi

In this work, we derive the global sharp decay, as both a lower and an upper bounds, for the spin $\pm \mathfrak{s}$ components, which are solutions to the Teukolsky equation, in the black hole exterior and on the event horizon of a slowly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-06 Siyuan Ma , Lin Zhang

We review our recent work on linear stability for scalar perturbations of Kerr spacetimes, that is to say, boundedness and decay properties for solutions of the scalar wave equation \Box_g{\psi} = 0 on Kerr exterior backgrounds. We begin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Mihalis Dafermos , Igor Rodnianski

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

In the present paper, we construct spontaneously scalarized rotating black hole solutions in dynamical Chern-Simons (dCS) gravity by following the scalar field evolution in the decoupling limit. For the range of parameters where the Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-14 Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

This paper is motivated by the non-linear stability problem for the expanding region of Kerr de Sitter cosmologies in the context of Einstein's equations with positive cosmological constant. We show that under dynamically realistic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Volker Schlue

This paper is motivated by the problem of the nonlinear stability of the Kerr solution for axially symmetric perturbations. We consider a model problem concerning the axially symmetric perturbations of a wave map $\Phi$ defined from a fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-19 A. D. Ionescu , S. Klainerman

We show that the horizon instability of the extremal Kerr black hole is associated with a singular branch point in the Green function at the superradiant bound frequency. We study generic initial data supported away from the horizon and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-07 Marc Casals , Samuel E. Gralla , Peter Zimmerman