The conjecture on energy boundedness and decay for Maxwell fields near-extremal Kerr
Fix . Let and . Let , and let . For any and any solution {\boldsymbol}{\mathfrak S}=({\boldsymbol}{\alpha}[{\boldsymbol}{\mathfrak S}],{\boldsymbol}{\underline{\alpha}}[{\boldsymbol}{\mathfrak S}],\widehat{{\boldsymbol}{\rho}}[{\boldsymbol}{\mathfrak S}],\widehat{{\boldsymbol}{\sigma}}[{\boldsymbol}{\mathfrak S}]) to the modified Maxwell equations arising from seed initial data supported on a fixed azimuthal mode on , let and denote the corresponding -th order energy quantities depending only on the seed initial data. Sub-extremal and extremal cases. The stated degenerate energy boundedness, degenerate energy decay, and event-horizon decay estimates hold: for all , the two degenerate energies are bounded by times their initial quantities; the two degenerate energies decay at rate with initial quantities; and the event-horizon energy and the two displayed angular-derivative quantities decay respectively at rates and , with the corresponding initial quantities. This is the expected uniform extension of energy boundedness and weaker decay to the nearly extremal regime, including the extremal endpoint; the preceding discussion explains that the established sub-extremal estimates degenerate as , while the conjectured estimates are motivated by expected control of the extremal Maxwell components under additional assumptions on the initial data.
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Gabriele Benomio and Rita Teixeira da Costa, “The Maxwell equations on full sub-extremal and extremal Kerr spacetimes”, arXiv:2512.08917 (2025).
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