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The observation of gravitational waves has inaugurated a new era for testing gravitational theories in strong-field, nonlinear regimes. Gravitational waves emit during the ringdown phase of binary black hole mergers and from extreme mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-24 Rong-Zhen Guo , Hongwei Tan , Qing-Guo Huang

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

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

We prove global existence and decay for small-data solutions to a class of quasilinear wave equations on a wide variety of asymptotically flat spacetime backgrounds, allowing in particular for the presence of horizons, ergoregions and…

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

A new version of the Teukolksy Master Equation, describing any massless field of different spin $s=1/2,1,3/2,2$ in the Kerr black hole, is presented here in the form of a wave equation containing additional curvature terms. These results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Donato Bini , Christian Cherubini , Robert T Jantzen , Remo J. Ruffini

This work provides gravitational wave energy and angular momentum asymptotic fluxes from a spinning body moving on generic orbits in a Kerr spacetime up to linear in spin approximation. To achieve this, we have developed a new frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-30 Viktor Skoupý , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Lisa V. Drummond , Scott A. Hughes

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 Teukolsky master equation and its associated spin-weighted spheroidal harmonic decomposition simplify considerably the study of linear gravitational perturbations of the Kerr(-AdS) black hole. However, the formulation of the problem is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Oscar J. C. Dias , Jorge E. Santos

We revisit the problem of the emission of gravitational waves from a test mass orbiting and thus perturbing a Kerr black hole. The source term of the Teukolsky perturbation equation contains a Dirac delta function which represents a point…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Pranesh A. Sundararajan , Gaurav Khanna , Scott A. Hughes

Inspirals of stellar-mass objects into massive black holes will be important sources for the space-based gravitational-wave detector LISA. Modelling these systems requires calculating the metric perturbation due to a point particle orbiting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-03 Vahid Toomani , Peter Zimmerman , Andrew Spiers , Stefan Hollands , Adam Pound , Stephen R. Green

The Lazarus project was designed to make the most of limited 3D binary black-hole simulations, through the identification of perturbations at late times, and subsequent evolution of the Weyl scalar $\Psi_4$ via the Teukolsky formulation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Manuela Campanelli , Bernard J. Kelly , Carlos O. Lousto

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

The Kerr spacetime is one of the most widely known solutions to Einstein's vacuum field equations and is commonly used to describe a black hole with mass $m$ and spin $a$. Astrophysical observations in the electromagnetic spectrum as well…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Torben C. Frost

We present a novel theoretical framework for analysing the stability of rotating black hole spacetimes through the conformal properties of the Weyl tensor. By introducing a new conformal invariant constructed from the electric and magnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Nader Haddad

We derive the large time asymptotics of initially regular and localized solutions of the Teukolsky equation on the exterior of a subextremal Kerr black hole for any half integer spin. More precisely, we obtain the leading order term…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Pascal Millet

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

The original Kerr theorem provides the foundation for Kerr-Schild transformations by classifying all shear-free and geodesic null congruences in flat spacetime; the key ingredient of the Kerr-Schild ansatz. However, due to the high level of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Eloy Ayón-Beato , Daniel Flores-Alfonso , Mokhtar Hassaine

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals are among the key sources of gravitational waves for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna space-based gravitational-wave detector. Achieving sufficient accuracy in the gravitational-wave template for these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-14 Gabriel Andres Piovano , Christiana Pantelidou , Jake Mac Uilliam , Vojtěch Witzany

Black hole (BH) solutions endowed with nontrivial scalar or matter fields - commonly known as hairy black holes - have attracted significant interest in recent years. They admit extra parameters beyond mass, charge, and angular momentum,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-17 Anirban Dasgupta , Supragyan Priyadarshinee , Indrani Banerjee , Subhash Mahapatra

We present a discussion of the periodicity in imaginary time of maximally extended black hole spacetimes without reference to Euclidean manifolds. As motivation, we first demonstrate our approach for the Rindler geometry in flat space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-28 Bernardo Araneda , Bernard F. Whiting