Improved decay rates with small regularity loss for the wave equation about a Schwarzschild black hole

This is the second in a series of papers in which we take a systematic study of gauge field theories such as the Maxwell equations and the Yang-Mills equations, on curved space-times. In this paper, we study the Maxwell equations in the domain of outer-communication of the Schwarzschild black hole. We show that if we assume that the middle components of the non-stationary solutions of the Maxwell equations verify a Morawetz type estimate supported around the trapped surface, ...

The semilinear wave equation on the (outer) Schwarzschild manifold is studied. We prove local decay estimates for general (non-radial) data, deriving a-priori Morawetz type estimates.

In this article, we make use of a weight function capturing the concentration phenomenon of unstable future-trapped causal geodesics. A projection $V_+$, on the tangent space of the null-shell, of the associated symplectic gradient turns out to enjoy good commutation properties with the massless Vlasov operator. This reflects that $V_+f$ decays exponentially locally near the photon sphere, for any smooth solution $f$ to the massless Vlasov equation. By identifying a well-ch...

In this article we study the quasilinear wave equation $\Box_{g(u, t, x)} u = 0$ where the metric $g(u, t, x)$ is close to the Schwarzschild metric. Under suitable assumptions of the metric coefficients, and assuming that the initial data for $u$ is small enough, we prove global existence of the solution. The main technical result of the paper is a local energy estimate for the linear wave equation on metrics with slow decay to the Schwarzschild metric.

We study spherically symmetric solutions of semilinear wave equations in the case where the nonlinearity satisfies the null condition on extremal Reissner--Nordstrom black hole spacetimes. We show that solutions which arise from sufficiently small compactly supported smooth data prescribed on a Cauchy hypersfurace \widetilde{{\Sigma}}_0 crossing the future event horizon \mathcal{H}^{+} are globally well-posed in the domain of outer communications up to and including \mathcal{...

We introduce a new, physical-space-based method for deriving the precise leading-order late-time behaviour of solutions to geometric wave equations on asymptotically flat spacetime backgrounds and apply it to the setting of wave equations with asymptotically inverse-square potentials on Schwarzschild black holes. This provides a useful toy model setting for introducing methods that are applicable to more general linear and nonlinear geometric wave equations, such as wave equa...

We give an elementary new argument for global existence and exponential decay of solutions of quasilinear wave equations on Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole backgrounds, for appropriately small initial data. The core of the argument is entirely local, based on time translation invariant energy estimates in spacetime slabs of fixed time length. Global existence then follows simply by iterating this local result in consecutive spacetime slabs. We infer that an appropriate fut...

We consider solutions of the massless scalar wave equation $\Box_g\psi=0$, without symmetry, on fixed subextremal Kerr backgrounds $(\mathcal M, g)$. It follows from previous analyses in the Kerr exterior that for solutions $\psi$ arising from sufficiently regular data on a two ended Cauchy hypersurface, the solution and its derivatives decay suitably fast along the event horizon $\mathcal H^+$. Using the derived decay rate, we show that $\psi$ is in fact uniformly bounded, $...

We present a new general method for proving global decay of energy through a suitable spacetime foliation, as well as pointwise decay, starting from an integrated local energy decay estimate. The method is quite robust, requiring only physical space techniques, and circumvents use of multipliers or commutators with weights growing in t. In particular, the method applies to a wide class of perturbations of Minkowski space as well as to Schwarzschild and Kerr black hole exterio...

We consider the wave equation (-\dt^2+\dr^2 -V -V_L(-\Delta_{S^2})) u = fF'(|u| ^2) u with (t,\rho,\theta,\phi) in R x R x S^2. The wave equation on a spherically symmetric manifold with a single closed geodesic surface or on the exterior of the Schwarzschild manifold can be reduced to this form. Using a smoothed Morawetz estimate which does not require a spherical harmonic decomposition, we show that there is decay in L^2_{loc} for initial data in the energy class, even if t...