English

Massive waves gravitationally bound to static bodies

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-12-05 v1 Analysis of PDEs Spectral Theory

Abstract

We show that, given any static spacetime whose spatial slices are asymptotically Euclidean (or, more generally, asymptotically conic) manifolds modeled on the large end of the Schwarzschild exterior, there exist stationary solutions to the Klein--Gordon equation having Schwartz initial data. In fact, there exist infinitely many independent such solutions. The proof is a variational argument based on the long range nature of the effective potential. We give two sets of test functions which serve to verify the hypothesis of the variational argument. One set consists of cutoff versions of the hydrogen bound states and is used to prove the existence of eigenvalues near the hydrogen spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.2312.00959,
  title  = {Massive waves gravitationally bound to static bodies},
  author = {Ethan Sussman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.00959},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

15 pages, 2 figures

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