Superradiant instabilities for short-range non-negative potentials on Kerr spacetimes and applications

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2017.06.017MaRDI QIDQ2399770zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Georgios Moschidis

Publication date 24 August 2017

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.02041

zbMATH Keywords

compact supportexponentially growing modesKerrmode instabilitystably trapped null geodesicssubextremal Kerr spacetimessuperradiancewave equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave equation (35L05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: The wave equation $squar{e}_{g_{M,a}}psi=0$ on subextremal Kerr spacetimes $(mathcal{M}_{M,a},g_{M,a})$, $0<|a|<M$, does not admit real mode solutions, as was established by Shlapentokh-Rothman. In this paper, we show that the absence of real modes does not persist under the addition of an arbitrary short-range non-negative potential $V$ to the wave equation or under changes of the metric $g_{M,a}$ in the far away region of $mathcal{M}_{M,a}$ (retaining the causality of $T$ there). In particular, we first establish, for any $0<|a|<M$, the existence of real mode solutions $psi$ to equation $squar{e}_{g_{M,a}}psi-Vpsi=0$, for a suitably chosen time-independent real potential $V$ with compact support in space, satisfying $Vge0$. Exponentially growing modes are also obtained after perturbing the potential $V$. Then, as an application of the above result, we construct a family of spacetimes $(mathcal{M}_{M,a},g_{M,a}^{(def)})$ which are compact in space perturbations of $(mathcal{M}_{M,a},g_{M,a})$, have the same symmetries as $(mathcal{M}_{M,a},g_{M,a})$ and moreover admit real and exponentially growing modes. These spacetimes contain stably trapped null geodesics, but we also construct a more complicated family of spacetimes with normally hyperbolic trapped set, admitting real and exponentially growing modes, at the expense of having conic asymptotics. The above results are in contrast with the case of stationary asymptotically flat (or conic) spacetimes $(mathcalM,g)$ with a globally timelike Killing field $T$, where real modes for equation $squar{e}_{g}psi-Vpsi=0$ are always absent, giving a useful zero-frequency continuity criterion for showing stability for a smooth family of equations $squar{e}_{g}psi-V_{lambda}psi=0$, with $lambdain[0,1]$ and $V_0=0$. We show explicitly that this criterion fails on Kerr spacetime.

Recommendations

• Unstable mode solutions to the Klein-Gordon equation in Kerr-anti-de Sitter spacetimes
• Exponentially growing finite energy solutions for the Klein-Gordon equation on sub-extremal Kerr spacetimes
• Unstable fields in Kerr spacetimes
• Mode stability on the real axis
• Quantitative mode stability for the wave equation on the Kerr spacetime

Cites work

• A local energy estimate on Kerr black hole backgrounds
• A new physical-space approach to decay for the wave equation with applications to black hole spacetimes
• A proof of Price's law for the collapse of a self-gravitating scalar field
• A proof of the uniform boundedness of solutions to the wave equation on slowly rotating Kerr backgrounds
• Asymptotics of linear waves and resonances with applications to black holes
• Decay for solutions of the wave equation on Kerr exterior spacetimes. III: The full subextremalcase \(|a| < M\).
• Effective limiting absorption principles, and applications
• Ergosphere instability
• Exponentially growing finite energy solutions for the Klein-Gordon equation on sub-extremal Kerr spacetimes
• Global Structure of the Kerr Family of Gravitational Fields
• Gravitational Field of a Spinning Mass as an Example of Algebraically Special Metrics
• Hamilton-Jacobi and Schrödinger separable solutions of Einstein's equations
• Hidden symmetries and decay for the wave equation on the Kerr spacetime
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2047064 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2103273 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 801686 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3239038 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3247443 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3383043 (Why is no real title available?)
• Instability of supersymmetric microstate geometries
• Lectures on black holes and linear waves
• Linear stability of Schwarzschild under perturbations which are non-vanishing on the bifurcation 2-sphere
• Logarithmic local energy decay for scalar waves on a general class of asymptotically flat spacetimes
• Mode stability of the Kerr black hole
• Note on Differential Operators With a Purely Continuous Spectrum
• On quadratic first integrals of the geodesic equations for type [22] spacetimes
• On quasinormal modes of asymptotically anti-de Sitter black holes
• Quasi-normal modes and exponential energy decay for the Kerr-de Sitter black hole
• Semilinear wave equations on the Schwarzschild manifold. I: Local decay estimates.
• Superradiant instabilities for short-range non-negative potentials on Kerr spacetimes and applications
• The \(r^{p}\)-weighted energy method of Dafermos and Rodnianski in general asymptotically flat spacetimes and applications
• The red‐shift effect and radiation decay on black hole spacetimes
• Time decay for solutions of Schrödinger equations with rough and time-dependent potentials
• Time-periodic Einstein-Klein-Gordon bifurcations of Kerr
• Uniform decay of local energy and the semi-linear wave equation on Schwarzschild space
• Wave operators and similarity for some non-selfadjoint operators
• Wave propagation on microstate geometries
• Über das asymptotische Verhalten der Lösungen von \(\Delta u+\lambda u=0\) in unendlichen Gebieten

Cited in

(12)

• Logarithmic local energy decay for scalar waves on a general class of asymptotically flat spacetimes
• Hidden spectral symmetries and mode stability of subextremal Kerr(-de Sitter) black holes
• Boundedness and decay for the Teukolsky equation on Kerr spacetimes. I: The case \(|a|\ll M\)
• Wave propagation on microstate geometries
• Onset of superradiant instabilities in the composed Kerr-black-hole-mirror bomb
• Superradiant instabilities for short-range non-negative potentials on Kerr spacetimes and applications
• A proof of Friedman's ergosphere instability for scalar waves
• Existence of exponentially growing finite energy solutions for the charged Klein-Gordon equation on the de Sitter-Kerr-Newman metric
• Stationarity and Fredholm theory in subextremal Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes
• Mode stability and shallow quasinormal modes of Kerr-de Sitter black holes away from extremality
• Boundedness and decay for the Teukolsky equation on Kerr in the full subextremal range \(|a|<M\): frequency space analysis
• Mode stability for the Teukolsky equation on extremal and subextremal Kerr spacetimes

This page was built for publication: Superradiant instabilities for short-range non-negative potentials on Kerr spacetimes and applications

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2399770)