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Source-Driven Tails in Kerr Spacetime: Nonlinear effects in Late-Time Behavior

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2026-01-19 v1

Abstract

We present the long-duration time-domain simulations of scalar-field tails in Kerr spacetimes driven by \emph{outgoing} multipolar sources. Extending the recent work in the literature from Schwarzschild to rotating black holes, we evolve sources with ={0,1,2,3,4}\ell'=\{0,1,2,3,4\} on backgrounds with dimensionless spin a/M={0.0,0.8,1.0}a/M=\{0.0, 0.8, 1.0\} and extract the late-time decay rates of measured modes 4\ell\le4 for a nonlinearity-inspired outgoing source with a 1/r21/r^2 fall-off. In all cases we find the inverse power-law index pp_{\ell\ell'} to be larger than the source-free Price law values by one unit, i.e. psourced=pPrice+1p^{\text{sourced}}_{\ell\ell'} = p^{\text{Price}}_{\ell\ell'} + 1. We also include a power-law index value computation for a similar source-driven gravitational wave case (,m)=(4,4)(\ell,m)=(4,4) and confirm closely related results in the recent literature.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2601.11484,
  title  = {Source-Driven Tails in Kerr Spacetime: Nonlinear effects in Late-Time Behavior},
  author = {Som Dev Bishoyi and Subir Sabharwal and Gaurav Khanna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.11484},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

7 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables, comments and feedback are welcome

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