Unstable fields in Kerr spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/29/9/095017MaRDI QIDQ2892074zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gustavo Dotti, Reinaldo J. Gleiser, Ignacio F. Ranea-Sandoval

Publication date 18 June 2012

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.5974

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Black holes (83C57) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: We show that both the interior region $r<M-sqrt{M}^2-a^2$ of a Kerr black hole and the $a^2>M^2$ Kerr naked singularity admit unstable solutions of the Teukolsky equation for any value of the spin weight. For every harmonic number there is at least one axially symmetric mode that grows exponentially in time and decays properly in the radial directions. These can be used as Debye potentials to generate solutions for the scalar, Weyl spinor, Maxwell and linearized gravity field equations on these backgrounds, satisfying appropriate spatial boundary conditions and growing exponentially in time, as shown in detail for the Maxwell case. It is suggested that the existence of the unstable modes is related to the so called "time machine" region, where the axial Killing vector field is time-like, and the Teukolsky equation, restricted to axially symmetric fields, changes its character from hyperbolic to elliptic.

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