The linear stability of Reissner-Nordström spacetime: the full subextremal range |Q|

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Abstract: We prove the linear stability of subextremal Reissner-Nordstr"om spacetimes as solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equation. We make use of a novel representation of gauge-invariant quantities which satisfy a symmetric system of coupled wave equations. This system is composed of two of the three equations separately derived in previous works, where the estimates required arbitrary smallness of the charge. Here, the estimates are obtained by defining a combined energy-momentum tensor for the system in terms of the symmetric structure of the right hand sides of the equations. We obtain boundedness of the energy, Morawetz estimates and decay for the full subextremal range |Q|<M, completely in physical space. Such decay estimates, together with the estimates for the gauge-dependent quantities of the perturbations previously obtained, settle the problem of linear stability to gravitational and electromagnetic perturbations of Reissner-Nordstr"om solution in the full subextremal range |Q|< M.


The author of this paper proves the linear stability of subextremal Reissner-Nordström spacetimes as solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equation. It is discussed an original representation of gauge-invariant quantities which satisfy a symmetric system of coupled wave equations. The idea for this system comes from previous works by the same author [``Boundedness and decay for the Teukolsky equation of spin \(\pm1\) on Reissner-Nordström spacetime: the \(\ell=1\) spherical mode, Classical Quantum Gravity 36, No. 20, Article ID 205001, 48 p. (2019; \url{doi:10.1088/1361-6382/ab3c03}); Ann. PDE 6, No. 2, Paper No. 8, 145 p. (2020; Zbl 1462.35388); Ann. Henri Poincaré 21, No. 8, 2485--2580 (2020; Zbl 1447.83006)], where the charge \(Q\) (charge of a black hole) is very small. Here the author discusses estimates obtained by defining a combined energy-momentum tensor for the above stated system in terms of the symmetric structure of the right hand sides of the equations. The main result concerns linear stability of Reissner-Nordström spacetime to gravitational and electromagnetic perturbations for \(|Q| < M\) (\(M\)-mass of a black hole). It is proved the following statement: ``All solutions to the linearized Einstein-Maxwell equations around a Reissner-Nordström solution \(g_{M,Q}\) for \(|Q| < M\) in a certain choice of gauge arising from regular asymptotically flat initial data remain uniformly bounded on the exterior and decay to a linearized Kerr-Newman solution.



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