Wave equations in the Kerr–de Sitter spacetime: The full subextremal range

  • Oliver Petersen

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
  • András Vasy

    Stanford University, Stanford, USA
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Abstract

We prove that solutions to linear wave equations in a subextremal Kerr–de Sitter spacetime have asymptotic expansions in quasinormal modes up to a decay order given by the normally hyperbolic trapping, extending the result of the second named author (2013). The main novelties are a different way of obtaining a Fredholm setup that defines the quasinormal modes and a new analysis of the trapping of lightlike geodesics in the Kerr–de Sitter spacetime, both of which apply in the full subextremal range. In particular, this reduces the question of decay for solutions to wave equations to the question of mode stability.

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Oliver Petersen, András Vasy, Wave equations in the Kerr–de Sitter spacetime: The full subextremal range. J. Eur. Math. Soc. (2024), published online first

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/1448