The linear stability of the Schwarzschild solution to gravitational perturbations

DOI10.4310/ACTA.2019.V222.N1.A1zbMATH Open1419.83023arXiv1601.06467WikidataQ124877463 ScholiaQ124877463MaRDI QIDQ2632495FDOQ2632495

Authors: Mihalis Dafermos, Gustav Holzegel, Igor Rodnianski 

Publication date: 14 May 2019

Published in: Acta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove in this paper the linear stability of the celebrated Schwarzschild family of black holes in general relativity: Solutions to the linearisation of the Einstein vacuum equations around a Schwarzschild metric arising from regular initial data remain globally bounded on the black hole exterior and in fact decay to a linearised Kerr metric. We express the equations in a suitable double null gauge. To obtain decay, one must in fact add a residual pure gauge solution which we prove to be itself quantitatively controlled from initial data. Our result a fortiori includes decay statements for general solutions of the Teukolsky equation (satisfied by gauge-invariant null-decomposed curvature components). These latter statements are in fact deduced in the course of the proof by exploiting associated quantities shown to satisfy the Regge--Wheeler equation, for which appropriate decay can be obtained easily by adapting previous work on the linear scalar wave equation. The bounds on the rate of decay to linearised Kerr are inverse polynomial, suggesting that dispersion is sufficient to control the non-linearities of the Einstein equations in a potential future proof of nonlinear stability. This paper is self-contained and includes a physical-space derivation of the equations of linearised gravity around Schwarzschild from the full non-linear Einstein vacuum equations expressed in a double null gauge.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.06467

Recommendations

• The linear stability of the Schwarzschild solution to gravitational perturbations in the generalised wave gauge
• Linear stability of Schwarzschild spacetime: decay of metric coefficients
• Decay of solutions of the Teukolsky equation for higher spin in the Schwarzschild geometry
• The linear stability of Reissner-Nordström spacetime for small charge
• Linear stability of Schwarzschild under perturbations which are non-vanishing on the bifurcation 2-sphere

zbMATH Keywords

linear stabilitySchwarzschild solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Black holes (83C57) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02)

Cited In (only showing first 100 items - show all)

• The Carter tensor and the physical-space analysis in perturbations of Kerr-Newman spacetime
• Conformal scattering theories for tensorial wave equations on Schwarzschild spacetime
• Geometric background for the Teukolsky equation revisited
• High-frequency solutions to the Einstein equations
• The stable trapping phenomenon for black strings and black rings and its obstructions on the decay of linear waves
• Local stability to the Einstein-Euler system in Schwarzschild space-time
• New well-posed boundary conditions for semi-classical Euclidean gravity
• Waves in cosmological background with static Schwarzschild radius in the expanding universe
• Characteristic gluing to the Kerr family and application to spacelike gluing
• The linear stability of the \(n + 1\) dimensional FLRW spacetimes
• Precise late-time asymptotics of scalar field in the interior of a subextreme Kerr black hole and its application in Strong Cosmic Censorship conjecture
• Optical functions in De Sitter
• Event horizon gluing and black hole formation in vacuum: the very slowly rotating case
• The emergence of gravitational wave science: 100 years of development of mathematical theory, detectors, numerical algorithms, and data analysis tools
• Sharp decay for Teukolsky equation in Kerr spacetimes
• A scattering theory for linearised gravity on the exterior of the Schwarzschild black hole. II: The full system.
• Coercivity properties of the canonical energy in double null gauge on the 4-dimensional Schwarzschild exterior
• Mathematical aspects of general relativity. Abstracts from the workshop held August 29 -- September 4, 2021 (hybrid meeting)
• A scattering theory for linearised gravity on the exterior of the Schwarzschild black hole. I: The Teukolsky equations
• Linear stability of higher dimensional Schwarzschild spacetimes: decay of master quantities
• Physical-space estimates for axisymmetric waves on extremal Kerr spacetime
• Gauge-invariant description of weak gravitational field on a spherically symmetric background with cosmological constant
• A large data theory for nonlinear wave on the Schwarzschild background
• Uniform Boundedness for Solutions to the Teukolsky Equation on Schwarzschild from Conservation Laws of Linearised Gravity
• Exterior stability of Minkowski space in generalized harmonic gauge
• Recent progress in general relativity
• Curvature blow-up and mass inflation in spherically symmetric collapse to a Schwarzschild black hole
• Decay and non-decay for the massless Vlasov equation on subextremal and extremal Reissner-Nordström black holes
• Price's law for spin fields on a Schwarzschild background
• Violent nonlinear collapse in the interior of charged hairy black holes
• A new gauge for gravitational perturbations of Kerr spacetimes. II: The linear stability of Schwarzschild revisited
• Late-time asymptotics for geometric wave equations with inverse-square potentials
• Linear stability of Mandal–Sengupta–Wadia black holes
• Global stability for a nonlinear system of anisotropic wave equations
• Nonlinear stability for the Maxwell-Born-Infeld system on a Schwarzschild background
• Quasilinear wave equations on Schwarzschild–de Sitter
• Symmetries of linearized gravity from adjoint operators
• Asymptotic properties of linear field equations in anti-De Sitter space
• Nonlinear scalar perturbations of extremal Reissner-Nordström spacetimes
• The linear stability of Reissner-Nordström spacetime: the full subextremal range \(|Q|<M\)
• Morawetz estimate for linearized gravity in Schwarzschild
• Uniform energy bound and Morawetz estimate for extreme components of spin fields in the exterior of a slowly rotating Kerr black hole. I: Maxwell field
• Linear stability of Schwarzschild under perturbations which are non-vanishing on the bifurcation 2-sphere
• Eigenvalue repulsions and quasinormal mode spectra of Kerr-Newman: an extended study
• Singularities, black holes, and cosmic censorship: a tribute to Roger Penrose
• A non-degenerate scattering theory for the wave equation on extremal Reissner-Nordström
• Sharp decay estimates for massless Dirac fields on a Schwarzschild background
• Theoretical cosmology
• The global non-linear stability of the Kerr-de Sitter family of black holes
• Is there a breakdown of effective field theory at the horizon of an extremal black hole?
• Vacuum type D initial data
• Late-time tails and mode coupling of linear waves on Kerr spacetimes
• Lectures on black holes and linear waves
• Quasinormal modes in extremal Reissner-Nordström spacetimes
• Lorentzian area and volume estimates for integral mean curvature bounds
• Black-hole stability in non-local gravity
• Boundedness and decay for the Teukolsky equation of spin \(\pm 1\) on Reissner-Nordström spacetime: the \(\ell=1\) spherical mode
• Peeling for tensorial wave equations on Schwarzschild spacetime
• Stability and decay rates for the five-dimensional Schwarzschild metric under biaxial perturbations
• Boundedness and decay for the Teukolsky equation on Kerr spacetimes. I: The case \(|a|\ll M\)
• Non-linear stability of the Kerr-Newman-de Sitter family of charged black holes
• Strong cosmic censorship in spherical symmetry for two-ended asymptotically flat initial data II: the exterior of the Black Hole region
• On the linear stability of the extreme Kerr black hole under axially symmetric perturbations
• Continued gravitational collapse for Newtonian stars
• A proof of Friedman's ergosphere instability for scalar waves
• Decay of the Weyl curvature in expanding black hole cosmologies
• Logarithmic corrections in the asymptotic expansion for the radiation field along null infinity
• Decay of solutions of the Teukolsky equation for higher spin in the Schwarzschild geometry
• Conservation laws and flux bounds for gravitational perturbations of the Schwarzschild metric
• On the backward stability of the Schwarzschild black hole singularity
• Mode stability for the Teukolsky equation on extremal and subextremal Kerr spacetimes
• A Newtonian approach to general black holes
• On the link between the Maxwell and linearised Einstein equations on Schwarzschild
• Decay estimates for the massless Vlasov equation on Schwarzschild spacetimes
• Stability of Schwarzschild-AdS for the spherically symmetric Einstein-Klein-Gordon system
• Teukolsky formalism for nonlinear Kerr perturbations
• Electromagnetic-gravitational perturbations of Kerr-Newman spacetime: the Teukolsky and Regge-Wheeler equations
• Explicit formula and meromorphic extension of the resolvent for the massive Dirac operator in the Schwarzschild-anti-de Sitter spacetime
• Linearization stability of the Einstein equation for Robertson–Walker models. I
• Linear stability of Schwarzschild spacetime: decay of metric coefficients
• Static and spherically symmetric solutions in a scenario with quadratic curvature contribution
• The \(r^{p}\)-weighted energy method of Dafermos and Rodnianski in general asymptotically flat spacetimes and applications
• The linear stability of the Schwarzschild solution to gravitational perturbations in the generalised wave gauge
• Mathematical general relativity
• Black hole non-modal linear stability: the Schwarzschild (A)dS cases
• An approach to stability analyses in general relativity via symplectic geometry
• Slow decay of waves in gravitational solitons
• Boundedness of massless scalar waves on Kerr interior backgrounds
• Linear stability of slowly rotating Kerr black holes
• Uniform energy bound and Morawetz estimate for extreme components of spin fields in the exterior of a slowly rotating Kerr black hole. II: linearized gravity
• On the radiation gauge for spin-1 perturbations in Kerr-Newman spacetime
• The decay of the \(S U(2)\) Yang-Mills fields on the Schwarzschild black hole for spherically symmetric small energy initial data
• The linear stability of Reissner-Nordström spacetime for small charge
• Stability of stationary-axisymmetric black holes in vacuum general relativity to axisymmetric electromagnetic perturbations
• A sharp version of Price's law for wave decay on asymptotically flat spacetimes
• Positive energy theorems in fourth-order gravity
• Boundedness and decay for the Teukolsky system of spin \(\pm 2\) on Reissner-Nordström spacetime: the case \(|Q| \ll M\)
• Explicit triangular decoupling of the separated Lichnerowicz tensor wave equation on Schwarzschild into scalar Regge-Wheeler equations
• The spin \(\pm 1\) Teukolsky equations and the Maxwell system on Schwarzschild
• On the global stability of the wave-map equation in Kerr spaces with small angular momentum

This page was built for publication: The linear stability of the Schwarzschild solution to gravitational perturbations

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2632495)