The global non-linear stability of the Kerr-de Sitter family of black holes

By P. Hintz, András Vasy. 2016

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We establish the full global non-linear stability of the Kerr-de Sitter family of black holes, as solutions of the initial value problem for the Einstein vacuum equations with positive cosmological constant, for small angular momenta, and without any symmetry assumptions on the initial data. We achieve this by extending the linear and non-linear analysis on black hole spacetimes described in a sequence of earlier papers by the authors: We develop a general framework which enables us to deal systematically with the diffeomorphism invariance of Einstein's equations. In particular, the iteration scheme used to solve Einstein's equations automatically finds the parameters of the Kerr-de Sitter black hole that the solution is asymptotic to, the exponentially decaying tail of the solution, and the gauge in which we are able to find the solution; the gauge here is a wave map/DeTurck type gauge, modified by source terms which are treated as unknowns, lying in a suitable finite-dimensional space.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mathematical Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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The interior of dynamical vacuum black holes I: The $C^0$-stability of the Kerr Cauchy horizon (2017, background): “While we have shown that θ∗ is indeed well-defined, we have not yet proven that (t, r∗, θ∗, φ) forms a coordinate system.”