Generic blow-up results for the wave equation in the interior of a Schwarzschild black hole (Q2296921)

The authors study the behaviour of smooth solutions to the wave equation in the interior of a fixed Schwarzschild black hole. In particular, they obtain a full asymptotic expansion for all solutions towards \(r = 0\) and show that this is characterised by its first two leading terms, the principal logarithmic term and a bounded second order term. Moreover, they characterise an open set of initial data for which the corresponding solutions blow up logarithmically on the entirety of the singular hypersurface \(\{r = 0 \}\). Their method is based on deriving weighted energy estimates in physical space and requires no symmetries of solutions. However, a key ingredient in their argument uses a precise analysis of the spherically symmetric part of the solution and a monotonicity property of spherically symmetric solutions in the interior.