The conjecture on energy boundedness and decay for Maxwell fields near-extremal Kerr

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Fix M>0M>0. Let η∈(0,1)\eta\in(0,1) and m∈Zm\in\mathbb{Z}. Let J2,J3≥J1≥Jmin≥1J_2,J_3\geq J_1\geq J_{\mathrm{min}}\geq 1, and let C=C(m,M,J1,J2,J3,η)>0C=C(m,M,J_1,J_2,J_3,\eta)>0. For any ∣a∣≤M|a|\leq M 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 mm on Σ0\Sigma_0, let DbddJ\mathbb{D}_{\mathrm{bdd}}^J and DdecJ\mathbb{D}_{\mathrm{dec}}^J denote the corresponding JJ-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 τ≥0\tau\geq0, the two degenerate energies are bounded by CC times their initial DbddJ2\mathbb{D}_{\mathrm{bdd}}^{J_2} quantities; the two degenerate energies decay at rate (1+τ)−(1−η)(1+\tau)^{-(1-\eta)} with initial DdecJ3\mathbb{D}_{\mathrm{dec}}^{J_3} quantities; and the event-horizon energy and the two displayed angular-derivative quantities decay respectively at rates (1+τ)−(2−η)(1+\tau)^{-(2-\eta)} and (1+τ)−(1−η)(1+\tau)^{-(1-\eta)}, with the corresponding initial DdecJ3\mathbb{D}_{\mathrm{dec}}^{J_3} 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 ∣a∣→M|a|\to M, 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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