Weakly turbulent dynamics on Schwarzschild-AdS black hole spacetimes

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Main Authors: Kehle, Christoph, Moschidis, Georgios
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author Kehle, Christoph
Moschidis, Georgios
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Moschidis, Georgios
contents In the presence of confinement, small-data solutions to nonlinear dispersive equations can exhibit a gradual energy transfer from low to high frequencies, a mechanism driving the emergence of weakly turbulent dynamics. We show that such a forward energy transfer, manifested as arbitrary inflation of higher order Sobolev norms, occurs for small-data solutions of a quasilinear cubic wave equation on the Schwarzschild-AdS black hole exterior with Dirichlet conditions at infinity, for generic values of the mass parameter. This result is motivated by the question of nonlinear stability or instability of Schwarzschild-AdS as a solution to the Einstein vacuum equations, but the strategy of proof applies to a broader class of backgrounds exhibiting stable trapping of null geodesics. As an application, we obtain the analogous norm inflation statement on $\mathbb R \times \mathbb S^3_+$ for generic perturbations of the round metric on the hemisphere $\mathbb S^3_+$ preserving the trapping structure at the boundary.
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spellingShingle Weakly turbulent dynamics on Schwarzschild-AdS black hole spacetimes
Kehle, Christoph
Moschidis, Georgios
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
In the presence of confinement, small-data solutions to nonlinear dispersive equations can exhibit a gradual energy transfer from low to high frequencies, a mechanism driving the emergence of weakly turbulent dynamics. We show that such a forward energy transfer, manifested as arbitrary inflation of higher order Sobolev norms, occurs for small-data solutions of a quasilinear cubic wave equation on the Schwarzschild-AdS black hole exterior with Dirichlet conditions at infinity, for generic values of the mass parameter. This result is motivated by the question of nonlinear stability or instability of Schwarzschild-AdS as a solution to the Einstein vacuum equations, but the strategy of proof applies to a broader class of backgrounds exhibiting stable trapping of null geodesics. As an application, we obtain the analogous norm inflation statement on $\mathbb R \times \mathbb S^3_+$ for generic perturbations of the round metric on the hemisphere $\mathbb S^3_+$ preserving the trapping structure at the boundary.
title Weakly turbulent dynamics on Schwarzschild-AdS black hole spacetimes
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12118