Dominic Dold | Searcharxiv

arXiv2017

Global dynamics of asymptotically locally AdS spacetimes with negative mass

The Einstein vacuum equations in five dimensions with negative cosmological constant are studied in biaxial Bianchi IX symmetry. We show that if initial data of Eguchi-Hanson type, modelled after the four-dimensional Riemannian Eguchi-Hanson space, have negative mass, the future maximal development does not contain horizons, i.e. the complement of the causal past of null infinity is empty. In particular, perturbations of Eguchi-Hanson-AdS spacetimes within the biaxial Bianchi IX symmetry class cannot form horizons, suggesting that such spacetimes are potential candidates for a naked singularity to form. The proof relies on an extension principle proven for this system and a priori estimates following from the monotonicity of the Hawking mass.

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arXiv2016

Unstable mode solutions to the Klein-Gordon equation in Kerr-anti-de Sitter spacetimes

For any cosmological constant $Λ=-3/\ell^2<0$ and any $α<9/4$, we find a Kerr-AdS spacetime $(\mathcal M,g_{\mathrm{KAdS}})$, in which the Klein-Gordon equation $\Box_{g_{\mathrm{KAdS}}}ψ+α/\ell^2ψ=0$ has an exponentially growing mode solution satisfying a Dirichlet boundary condition at infinity. The spacetime violates the Hawking-Reall bound $r_+^2>|a|\ell$. We obtain an analogous result for Neumann boundary conditions if $5/4<α<9/4$. Moreover, in the Dirichlet case, one can prove that, for any Kerr-AdS spacetime violating the Hawking-Reall bound, there exists an open family of masses $α$ such that the corresponding Klein-Gordon equation permits exponentially growing mode solutions. Our result adopts methods of Shlapentokh-Rothman (see arXiv:1302.3448) and provides the first rigorous construction of a superradiant instability for negative cosmological constant.

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