Existence conjecture for singular Kerr waves from compactly supported data

Let Σ0\Sigma_0 be a complete 22-ended asymptotically flat Cauchy hypersurface in a Kerr spacetime with 0<a<M0<|a|<M, and let ψ\psi solve the linear wave equation

gψ=0.\Box_g\psi=0.

The relevant assumptions are the polynomial upper and lower bounds on the energy along the event horizon specified in the paper's main theorem. Kerr event-horizon energy conjecture. There exist smooth and compactly supported initial data on Σ0\Sigma_0 such that the corresponding solutions obey those energy assumptions along the event horizon. This conjecture would, together with the paper's main theorem, yield singular solutions arising from smooth compactly supported initial data; linearity would then give genericity. The corresponding existence and instability result is known in the Reissner–Nordström setting, but remains open for Kerr.

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Jonathan Luk and Jan Sbierski, “Instability results for the wave equation in the interior of Kerr black holes”, arXiv:1512.08259 (2016).

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