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We derive a formalism for solving the Lorenz gauge equations for metric perturbations of Kerr spacetime sourced by an arbitrary stress-energy tensor. The metric perturbation is obtained as a sum of differential operators acting on a set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Barry Wardell , Chris Kavanagh , Sam R. Dolan

Perturbations of Kerr spacetime are typically studied with the Teukolsky formalism, in which a pair of invariant components of the perturbed Weyl tensor are expressed in terms of separable modes that satisfy ordinary differential equations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Sam R. Dolan , Chris Kavanagh , Barry Wardell

To fully exploit the capabilities of next-generation gravitational wave detectors, we need to significantly improve the accuracy of our models of gravitational-wave-emitting systems. This paper focuses on one way of doing so: by taking…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-07 Andrew Spiers , Adam Pound , Jordan Moxon

Motivated by the Kerr-CFT conjecture, we investigate perturbations of the near-horizon extreme Kerr spacetime. The Teukolsky equation for a massless field of arbitrary spin is solved. Solutions fall into two classes: normal modes and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-28 Oscar J. C. Dias , Harvey S. Reall , Jorge E. Santos

In this paper, we prove energy and Morawetz estimates for solutions to Teukolsky equations in spacetimes with metrics that are perturbations, compatible with nonlinear applications, of Kerr metrics in the full subextremal range. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Siyuan Ma , Jérémie Szeftel

We derive the Teukolsky equation for perturbations of a Kerr spacetime when the spacetime metric is written in either ingoing or outgoing Kerr-Schild form. We also write explicit formulae for setting up the initial data for the Teukolsky…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Manuela Campanelli , Gaurav Khanna , Pablo Laguna , Jorge Pullin , Michael P. Ryan

The advancement in gravitational wave detection has made it possible to study the nonlinear effects in black hole perturbations, the modeling of which requires the full knowledge of the linear order perturbation of the metric. For the most…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Jianwei Mei

We study gravitational perturbations on the near-horizon region of extremal and near-extremal rotating black holes in a general higher-derivative extension of Einstein gravity. We find a decoupled modified Teukolsky equation that rules the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-24 Pablo A. Cano , Marina David

Employing the Newman-Penrose formalism and following the classic Teukolsky-like approach, we linearise the field equations of quadratic gravity on the Kerr background and combine them with the linearised Ricci and Bianch identities. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Simon Knoska , David Kofron , Robert Svarc

The goal of this paper is to provide a geometric framework for analyzing the uniform decay properties of solutions to the Teukolsky equation in the fully nonlinear setting of perturbations of Kerr. It contains the first nonlinear version of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-10 Elena Giorgi , Sergiu Klainerman , Jérémie Szeftel

We prove boundedness and polynomial decay statements for solutions of the Teukolsky system for electromagnetic-gravitational perturbations of a Kerr-Newman exterior background, with parameters satisfying $|a|, |Q| \ll M$. The identification…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Elena Giorgi

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

Recent gravitational wave detections from black hole mergers have underscored the critical role black hole perturbation theory and the Teukolsky equation play in understanding the behaviour of black holes. The separable nature of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-14 Andrew Spiers

In this work we present a formulation of the Teukolsky equation for generic spin perturbations on the hyperboloidal and horizon penetrating foliation of Kerr recently proposed by Racz and Toth. An additional, spin-dependent rescaling of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-15 Enno Harms , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Bernd Bruegmann

The quantization of linearized gravity on black hole spacetimes and the construction of states for that theory is a sought-after, yet difficult achievement. One of the main reasons is the difficulty of reconciling the positivity and gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Christiane K. M. Klein

The gravitational perturbations of a rotating Kerr black hole are notoriously complicated, even at the linear level. In 1973, Teukolsky showed that their physical degrees of freedom are encoded in two gauge-invariant Weyl curvature scalars…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Roman Berens , Trevor Gravely , Alexandru Lupsasca

While the Teukolsky equation plays a central role in traditional treatments of perturbations of algebraically special spacetimes, its relation to Friedrich's conformal Einstein field equations (CEFEs) remains largely unexplored. Here we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Edgar Gasperin , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Justin Feng

Using the recently derived higher spin gravitational Compton amplitude from low-energy analytically continued ($a/Gm\gg1$) solutions of the Teukolsky equation for the scattering of a gravitational wave off the Kerr black hole, observables…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-28 Yilber Fabian Bautista

We construct the metric perturbation in Lorenz gauge for a compact body on a circular equatorial orbit of a rotating black hole (Kerr) spacetime, using a newly-developed method of separation of variables. The metric perturbation is formed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-10 Sam R Dolan , Leanne Durkan , Chris Kavanagh , Barry Wardell

Weak gravitational, electromagnetic, neutrino and scalar fields, considered as perturbations on Kerr background satisfy Teukolsky Master Equation. The two non-trivial equations obtained after separating the variables are the polar angle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-14 Roumen S. Borissov , Plamen P. Fiziev
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