Logarithmic local energy decay for scalar waves on a general class of asymptotically flat spacetimes

DOI10.1007/S40818-016-0010-8zbMATH Open1402.35046arXiv1509.08495OpenAlexW2963243725MaRDI QIDQ1661383FDOQ1661383

Georgios Moschidis

Publication date: 16 August 2018

Published in: Annals of PDE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper establishes that on the domain of outer communications of a general class of stationary and asymptotically flat Lorentzian manifolds of dimension $d+1$, $dge3$, the local energy of solutions to the scalar wave equation $squar{e}_{g}psi=0$ decays at least with an inverse logarithmic rate. This class of Lorentzian manifolds includes (non-extremal) black hole spacetimes with no restriction on the nature of the trapped set. Spacetimes in this class are moreover allowed to have a small ergoregion but are required to satisfy an energy boundedness statement. Without making further assumptions, this logarithmic decay rate is shown to be sharp. Our results can be viewed as a generalisation of a result of Burq, dealing with the case of the wave equation on flat space outside compact obstacles, and results of Rodnianski--Tao for asymptotically conic product Lorentzian manifolds. The proof will bridge ideas of Rodnianski--Tao with techniques developed in the black hole setting by Dafermos--Rodnianski. As a soft corollary of our results, we will infer an asymptotic completeness statement for the wave equation on the spacetimes considered, in the case where no ergoregion is present.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.08495

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zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic completenessdomain of outer communications

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Wave equation (35L05) Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45)

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