True-solution conjecture for gluing small black holes along timelike geodesics
True-solution conjecture for gluing small black holes along timelike geodesics
Let be a precompact open set. For sufficiently small , let be the formal solution on obtained by gluing small Kerr black holes along the prescribed timelike geodesic configuration, and let denote the relevant interior region. A tensor is required to be smooth on , vanish to infinite order at , and vanish outside the domain of influence of a compact subset of . True solution conjecture. There exists such that, for every , one can choose such an for which
The conjecture asks whether the formal gluing construction can be corrected to an actual solution of the Einstein vacuum equations. Such a correction would be needed, for example, to apply nonlinear stability results to extreme mass-ratio mergers; the supplied source does not state that this has been proved or disproved.
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Peter Hintz, “Gluing small black holes along timelike geodesics I: formal solution”, arXiv:2306.07409 (2024).
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