Mihalis Dafermos, I. Rodnianski, Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman
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Abstract
We develop a definitive physical-space scattering theory for the scalar wave equation on Kerr exterior backgrounds in the general subextremal case |a|
对于一般亚极值情况下Kerr外背景下的标量波动方程,我们建立了一个确定的物理空间散射理论。特别地,我们证明了“散射态的存在唯一性”和“渐近完备性”所对应的结果,并进一步证明了将过去视界和过去零无穷辐射场映射到未来视界和未来零无穷辐射场的“散射矩阵”是一个有界算子。后者允许我们给出超辐射反射的时域理论。散射矩阵的有界性特别表明,与入射有限能量波包有关的解在过零无穷远处的最大放大是有界的。在频率方面,这对应于一种新的说法,即适当归一化的反射系数和透射系数是均匀有界的,与频率参数无关。我们进一步证明,超辐射反射确实放大了上述合适波包辐射到未来零无穷大的能量。这些结果充分利用了我们最近证明的一个改进[M]。Dafermos, I. Rodnianski和Y. Shlapentokh-Rothman, Kerr外时空上波动方程解的衰减:有界性的完全次极值情形[a]
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