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Linear Instability of the Reissner-Nordström Cauchy Horizon

Eavan Gleeson
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This work studies solutions of the scalar wave equation \[\Box_gϕ=0\] on a fixed subextremal Reissner-Nordström spacetime with non-vanishing charge $q$ and mass $M$. In a recent paper, Luk and Oh established that generic smooth and compactly supported initial data on a Cauchy hypersurface lead to solutions which are singular in the $W^{1,2}_{loc}$ sense near the Cauchy horizon in the black hole interior, and it follows easily that they are also singular in the $W^{1,p}_{loc}$ sense for $p>2$. On the other hand, the work of Franzen shows that such solutions are non-singular near the Cauchy horizon in the $W^{1,1}_{loc}$ sense. Motivated by these results, we investigate the strength of the singularity at the Cauchy horizon. We identify a sufficient condition on the black hole interior (which holds for the full subextremal parameter range $0<|q|<M$) ensuring $W^{1,p}_{loc}$ blow up near the Cauchy horizon of solutions arising from generic smooth and compactly supported data for every $1<p<2$. We moreover prove that provided the spacetime parameters satisfy $\frac{2\sqrt e}{e+1}<\frac{|q|}{M}<1$, we in fact have $W^{1,p}_{loc}$ blow up near the Cauchy horizon for such solutions for every $1<p<2$. This shows that the singularity is even stronger than was implied by the work of Luk and Oh for this restricted parameter range.

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Eavan Gleeson. 2017-01-23. Linear Instability of the Reissner-Nordström Cauchy Horizon. https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06668

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