Time-translation invariance of scattering maps and blue-shift instabilities on Kerr black hole spacetimes

DOI10.1007/S00220-016-2771-ZzbMATH Open1360.83030arXiv1512.08260OpenAlexW2283184565MaRDI QIDQ514320FDOQ514320

Authors: Mihalis Dafermos, Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman 

Publication date: 1 March 2017

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we provide an elementary, unified treatment of two distinct blue-shift instabilities for the scalar wave equation on a fixed Kerr black hole background: the celebrated blue-shift at the Cauchy horizon (familiar from the strong cosmic censorship conjecture) and the time-reversed red-shift at the event horizon (relevant in classical scattering theory). Our first theorem concerns the latter and constructs solutions to the wave equation on Kerr spacetimes such that the radiation field along the future event horizon vanishes and the radiation field along future null infinity decays at an arbitrarily fast polynomial rate, yet, the local energy of the solution is infinite near any point on the future event horizon. Our second theorem constructs solutions to the wave equation on rotating Kerr spacetimes such that the radiation field along the past event horizon (extended into the black hole) vanishes and the radiation field along past null infinity decays at an arbitrarily fast polynomial rate, yet, the local energy of the solution is infinite near any point on the Cauchy horizon. The results make essential use of the scattering theory developed in [M. Dafermos, I. Rodnianski and Y. Shlapentokh-Rothman, A scattering theory for the wave equation on Kerr black hole exteriors, preprint (2014) available at url{http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.8379}] and exploit directly the time-translation invariance of the scattering map and the non-triviality of the transmission map.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.08260

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zbMATH Keywords

spacetimeCauchy horizonKerr black holeblue-shift instabilitiesevent horizonscalar wave equationscattering mapsstrong cosmic censorship conjecturetime-translation invariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave equation (35L05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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