The evolution conjecture for gluing small Kerr black holes into initial data

Let (γ^,k^)(\hat\gamma,\hat k) denote boosted subextremal Kerr black hole initial data with parameters m^\hat{\mathfrak{m}} (mass) and a^\hat{\mathfrak{a}} (specific angular momentum). Let (X,γ,k)(X,\gamma,k) be initial data, and let (M,g)(M,g) be a compact globally hyperbolic subset of its maximal globally hyperbolic development. For a suitable family (γϵ,kϵ)(\gamma_\epsilon,k_\epsilon) of initial data with boundary data (γ,k)(\gamma,k) and (γ^,k^)(\hat\gamma,\hat k), write (Xϵ,γϵ,kϵ)(X_\epsilon,\gamma_\epsilon,k_\epsilon) for the glued initial data, and let CM\mathcal C\subset M be the geodesic whose initial conditions at XMX\subset M are determined by a point pX\mathfrak p\in X and the boost parameter of the Kerr data. Evolution conjecture for gluing small Kerr black holes. The maximal globally hyperbolic development of (Xϵ,γϵ,kϵ)(X_\epsilon,\gamma_\epsilon,k_\epsilon) contains a region (Mϵ,gϵ)(M_\epsilon,g_\epsilon) such that: (1) MϵM_\epsilon is obtained from MM by excising a size-ϵ\epsilon neighborhood of C\mathcal C; (2) gϵg_\epsilon tends to gg away from C\mathcal C, while in an O(ϵ)\mathcal O(\epsilon) neighborhood of C\mathcal C, the rescaling ϵ2gϵ\epsilon^{-2}g_\epsilon tends to a family, depending on the point of C\mathcal C, of Kerr black hole metrics with parameters (m^,a^)(\hat{\mathfrak m},\hat{\mathfrak a}); and (3) the total family ϵgϵ\epsilon\mapsto g_\epsilon is polyhomogeneous on a total space obtained by resolving [0,1)×M[0,1)\times M at {0}×C\{0\}\times\mathcal C. This conjecture predicts that the local Kerr geometry inserted into the initial data persists under evolution, with the spacetime developing a controlled polyhomogeneous structure after the small-hole limit is resolved. Its resolution would describe how isolated boosted subextremal Kerr black holes emerge inside evolutions of glued initial data.

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Peter Hintz, “Gluing small black holes into initial data sets”, arXiv:2210.13960 (2022).

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