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It is shown that Kerr-Newman black holes can support linear charged scalar fields in their exterior regions. To that end, we solve analytically the Klein-Gordon wave equation for a stationary charged massive scalar field in the background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Shahar Hod

We prove a threshold-sharp stability theory for the conformal scalar-curvature sector on zero-curvature Carter backgrounds. The main result is a fully closed bounded-slab theorem: the reflecting evolution is constructed, the conserved…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Bobby Eka Gunara

We establish boundedness and polynomial decay results for the Teukolsky system in the exterior spacetime of very slowly rotating and strongly charged sub-extremal Kerr-Newman black holes, with a focus on axially symmetric solutions. The key…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-16 Elena Giorgi , Jingbo Wan

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 prove that solutions to linear wave equations in a subextremal Kerr-de Sitter spacetime have asymptotic expansions in quasinormal modes up to a decay order given by the normally hyperbolic trapping, extending the existing results. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-13 Oliver Petersen , András Vasy

We know that Kerr black holes are stable for specific conditions.In this article, we use algebraic methods to prove the stability of the Kerr black hole against certain scalar perturbations. This provides new results for the previously…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-29 Wen-Xiang Chen , Zi-Yang Huang

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 prove that a large class of smooth solutions $\psi$ to the linear wave equation $\Box_g\psi=0$ on subextremal rotating Kerr spacetimes which are regular and decaying along the event horizon become singular at the Cauchy horizon. More…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-01 Jonathan Luk , Jan Sbierski

In this article we study the pointwise decay properties of solutions to the wave equation on a class of nonstationary asymptotically flat backgrounds in three space dimensions. Under the assumption that uniform energy bounds and a weak form…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-25 Jason Metcalfe , Daniel Tataru , Mihai Tohaneanu

We study in detail the quasinormal modes of linear gravitational perturbations of plane-symmetric anti-de Sitter black holes. The wave equations are obtained by means of the Newman-Penrose formalism and the Chandrasekhar transformation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-25 Alex S. Miranda , Vilson T. Zanchin

We study dispersive properties for the wave equation in the Kerr space-time with small angular momentum. The main result of thispaper is to establish uniform energy bounds and local energy decay for such backgrounds.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-11-03 Daniel Tataru , Mihai Tohaneanu

The analytic proof of mode stability of the Kerr black hole was provided by Whiting. In his proof, the construction of a conserved quantity for unstable mode was crucial. We extend the method of the analysis for the Kerr-de Sitter geometry.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiroshi Umetsu

A (charged) rotating black hole may be unstable against a (charged) massive scalar field perturbation due to the existence of superradiance modes. The stability property depends on the parameters of the system. In this paper, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-02 Jia-Mao Lin , Ming-Jian Luo , Zi-Han Zheng , Lei Yin , Jia-Hui Huang

A generalization of the mode stability result of Whiting (1989) for the Teukolsky equation is proved for the case of real frequencies. The main result of the paper states that a separated solution of the Teukolsky equation governing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-02 Lars Andersson , Siyuan Ma , Claudio Paganini , Bernard F. Whiting

The quasinormal modes (QNMs) of a black hole spacetime are the free, decaying oscillations of the spacetime, and are well understood in the case of Kerr black holes. We discuss a method for computing the QNMs of spacetimes which are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Aaron Zimmerman , Huan Yang , Zachary Mark , Yanbei Chen , Luis Lehner

We study gravitational perturbations of electrically charged black holes in (3+1)-dimensional Einstein-Born-Infeld gravity with a positive cosmological constant. For the axial perturbations, we obtain a set of decoupled Schrodinger-type…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-24 Chong Oh Lee , Jin Young Kim , Mu-In Park

The proper understanding of the electromagnetic counterpart of gravity-waves emitters is of serious interest to the multimessenger astronomy. In this article, we study the numerical stability of the quasinormal modes (QNM) and quasibound…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-01 Denitsa Staicova , Plamen Fiziev

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

In this paper we study the stability and quasi-normal modes of scalar perturbations of black holes. The static charged black hole considered here is a solution to Born-Infeld electrodynamics coupled to gravity. We conclude that the black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-27 Sharmanthie Fernando , Chad Holbrook

So far analysis of the quasinormal spectrum of a massive charged scalar field in the black hole background has been limited by the regime of small \mu M and qQ, where \mu, q (M, Q) are mass and charge of the field (black hole). Here we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-06 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko