Charged scalar fields on Reissner--Nordström spacetimes I: integrated energy estimates

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Main Author: Gajic, Dejan
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contents This is the first part of a series of papers deriving the precise, late-time behaviour and (in)stability properties of charged scalar fields on near-extremal Reissner--Nordström spacetimes via energy estimates. In this paper, we establish global, weighted integrated energy decay and energy boundedness estimates for solutions to the charged scalar field equation on (near-)extremal Reissner--Nordström(--de Sitter) spacetimes. These estimates extend to Reissner--Nordström spacetimes away from extremality under the assumption of mode stability on the real axis. Together with the companion paper [Gaj26], this paper forms the first global quantitative analysis of the charged scalar field equation on asymptotically flat black hole spacetimes, without a smallness assumption on the scalar field charge. Due to a coupling of the degeneration of the red-shift effect with the presence of superradiance at the linearized level, charged scalar fields on Reissner--Nordström spacetimes also probe some of the main difficulties encountered when studying the (neutral) wave equation on extremal Kerr spacetimes.
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spellingShingle Charged scalar fields on Reissner--Nordström spacetimes I: integrated energy estimates
Gajic, Dejan
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
Differential Geometry
This is the first part of a series of papers deriving the precise, late-time behaviour and (in)stability properties of charged scalar fields on near-extremal Reissner--Nordström spacetimes via energy estimates. In this paper, we establish global, weighted integrated energy decay and energy boundedness estimates for solutions to the charged scalar field equation on (near-)extremal Reissner--Nordström(--de Sitter) spacetimes. These estimates extend to Reissner--Nordström spacetimes away from extremality under the assumption of mode stability on the real axis. Together with the companion paper [Gaj26], this paper forms the first global quantitative analysis of the charged scalar field equation on asymptotically flat black hole spacetimes, without a smallness assumption on the scalar field charge. Due to a coupling of the degeneration of the red-shift effect with the presence of superradiance at the linearized level, charged scalar fields on Reissner--Nordström spacetimes also probe some of the main difficulties encountered when studying the (neutral) wave equation on extremal Kerr spacetimes.
title Charged scalar fields on Reissner--Nordström spacetimes I: integrated energy estimates
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
Differential Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28874