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

In this paper we show that there is a breakdown of scattering between the event horizon (or the Cauchy horizon) and an intermediate Cauchy hypersurface in the dynamic interior of a Reissner-Nordstr\"om-like black hole. More precisely, we show that the trace operators and their analytic counterparts, the inverse wave operators, do not have bounded inverses, even though these operators themselves are bounded. This result holds for the natural energy given by the energy-momentum...

We study the scalar wave equation on the open exterior region of an extreme Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole and prove that, given compactly supported data on a Cauchy surface orthogonal to the timelike Killing vector field, the solution, together with its $(t,s,\theta,\phi)$ derivatives of arbitrary order, $s$ a tortoise radial coordinate, is bounded by a constant that depends only on the initial data. Our technique does not allow to study transverse derivatives at the horizo...

In [M. Dafermos and I. Rodnianski, A new physical-space approach to decay for the wave equation with applications to black hole spacetimes, in XVIth International Congress on Mathematical Physics, Pavel Exner ed., Prague 2009 pp. 421-433, 2009, arXiv:0910.4957], Dafermos and Rodnianski presented a novel approach to establish uniform decay rates for solutions $\phi$ to the scalar wave equation $\square_{g}\phi=0$ on Minkowski, Schwarzschild and other asymptotically flat backgr...

In this paper we use Morawetz estimates with geometric energy estimates -the so-called vector field method- to prove decay results for the Maxwell field in the static exterior region of the Reissner-Nordstr{\o}m-de Sitter black hole. We prove two types of decay: The first is a uniform decay of the energy of the Maxwell field on achronal hypersurfaces as the hypersurfaces approach timelike infinities. The second decay result is a pointwise decay in time with a rate of $t^{-1}$...

In ``Global existence and scattering for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation on Schwarzschild manifolds'' (math-ph/0002030), ``Semilinear wave equations on the Schwarzschild manifold I: Local Decay Estimates'' (gr-qc/0310091), and ``The wave equation on the Schwarzschild metric II: Local Decay for the spin 2 Regge Wheeler equation'' (gr-qc/0310066), local decay estimates were proven for the (decoupled) Schrodinger, wave, and Regge-Wheeler equations on the Schwarzschild manifol...

In this paper, we expand on results from our previous paper "The Case Against Smooth Null Infinity I: Heuristics and Counter-Examples" [1] by showing that the failure of "peeling" (and, thus, of smooth null infinity) in a neighbourhood of $i^0$ derived therein translates into logarithmic corrections at leading order to the well-known Price's law asymptotics near $i^+$. This suggests that the non-smoothness of $\mathcal{I}^+$ is physically measurable. More precisely, we consid...

We show that linear scalar waves are bounded and continuous up to the Cauchy horizon of Reissner-Nordstr\"om-de Sitter and Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes, and in fact decay exponentially fast to a constant along the Cauchy horizon. We obtain our results by modifying the spacetime beyond the Cauchy horizon in a suitable manner, which puts the wave equation into a framework in which a number of standard as well as more recent microlocal regularity and scattering theory results apply...

We study the global decay properties of solutions to the linear wave equation in 1+3 dimensions on time-dependent, weakly asymptotically flat spacetimes. Assuming non-trapping of null geodesics and a local energy decay estimate, we prove that sufficiently regular solutions to this equation have bounded conformal energy. As an application we also show a conformal energy estimate with vector fields applied to the solution as well as a global $L^{\infty}$ decay bound in terms of...

In this paper, we prove the decay estimate of Maxwell-Higgs system on four dimensional Schwarzschild spacetimes. We show that if the field equations support a Morawetz type estimate supported around the trapped surface, the uniform decay properties in the entire exterior of the Schwarzschild black holes can be obtained by using Sobolev inequalities and energy estimates. Our results also consider various forms of physical potential such as the mass terms, $\phi^4$-theory, sine...

In this paper, we obtain pointwise decay estimates in time for massive Vlasov fields on the exterior of Schwarzschild spacetime. We consider massive Vlasov fields supported on the closure of the largest domain of the mass-shell where timelike geodesics either cross $\mathcal{H}^+$, or escape to infinity. For this class of Vlasov fields, we prove that the components of the energy-momentum tensor decay like $v^{-\frac{1}{3}}$ in the bounded region $\{r\leq R\}$, and like $u^{-\...