A rigorous treatment of energy extraction from a rotating black hole

DOI10.1007/S00220-009-0730-7MaRDI QIDQ5962372zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Felix Finster, Niky Kamran, Joel Smoller, Shing-Tung Yau

Publication date 22 September 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0701018

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Explicit solutions, first integrals of ordinary differential equations (34A05) Wave equation (35L05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: The Cauchy problem is considered for the scalar wave equation in the Kerr geometry. We prove that by choosing a suitable wave packet as initial data, one can extract energy from the black hole, thereby putting supperradiance, the wave analogue of the Penrose process, into a rigorous mathematical framework. We quantify the maximal energy gain. We also compute the infinitesimal change of mass and angular momentum of the black hole, in agreement with Christodoulou's result for the Penrose process. The main mathematical tool is our previously derived integral representation of the wave propagator.

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