Skip navigation
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01p5547t983
Title: Nonlinear Wave Dynamics in Black Hole Spacetimes
Authors: Stogin, John
Advisors: Klainerman, Sergiu
Contributors: Mathematics Department
Keywords: black hole stability
general relativity
partial differential equations
Subjects: Mathematics
Issue Date: 2017
Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University
Abstract: This thesis details a method for proving global boundedness and decay results for nonlinear wave equations on black hole spacetimes. The method is applied to five example problems of increasing difficulty. The first problem, which addresses the semilinear wave equation on Minkowski space, is quite simple and should be accessible to a reader who is still new to the field of partial differential equations. The final problem, which was posed by Ionescu and Klainerman in [IK14], constitutes a step toward proving stability for slowly rotating Kerr black holes. The remaining intermediate problems are: a semilinear wave equation on the Schwarzschild spacetime, a semilinear wave equation on any subextremal Kerr spacetime with the additional assumption of axisymmetry, and a restriction of the final problem to the Schwarzschild case. The method used in this thesis is based on a few particular developments that may be useful for other related problems. These include: a new method for constructing Morawetz-type estimates that is fairly robust (insofar as it may be successfully applied to all five problems), a strategy based on a decay hierarchy for energy estimates on uniformly spacelike hypersurfaces using, in particular, a notion of weak decay, and a technique for handling certain terms with factors that are singular on an axis of symmetry.
URI: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01p5547t983
Alternate format: The Mudd Manuscript Library retains one bound copy of each dissertation. Search for these copies in the library's main catalog: catalog.princeton.edu
Type of Material: Academic dissertations (Ph.D.)
Language: en
Appears in Collections:Mathematics

Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormat 
Stogin_princeton_0181D_12076.pdf1.82 MBAdobe PDFView/Download


Items in Dataspace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.