Quantitative decay rates for dispersive solutions to the Einstein-scalar field system in spherical symmetry

Abstract

In this paper, we study the future causally geodesically complete solutions of the spherically symmetric Einstein-scalar field system. Under the a priori assumption that the scalar field $\varphi$ scatters locally in the scale-invariant bounded-variation (BV) norm, we prove that $\varphi$ and its derivatives decay polynomially. Moreover, we show that the decay rates are sharp. In particular, we obtain sharp quantitative decay for the class of global solutions with small BV norms constructed by Christodoulou. As a consequence of our results, for every future causally geodesically complete solution with sufficiently regular initial data, we show the dichotomy that either the sharp power law tail holds or that the spacetime blows up at infinity in the sense that some scale invariant spacetime norms blow up.

63 pages, 2 figures. v2: version accepted for publication

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