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most citedExponentially growing finite energy solutions for the Klein-Gordon equation on sub-extremal Kerr spacetimes

81 citations · 432 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

gr-qc2025

Boundedness for the wave equation on stationary axisymmetric perturbations of Kerr

Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman, Mihai Tohaneanu

On the full range of sub-extremal Kerr exterior spacetimes we give a new proof of energy boundedness for high-frequency projections of solutions to the wave equation onto trapped f…

gr-qc2023★ 2 cited

Polynomial time decay for solutions of the Klein--Gordon equation on a subextremal Reissner--Nordström black hole

Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman, Maxime Van de Moortel

We consider the massive scalar field equation on any subextremal Reissner--Nordström exterior metric . We prove that solutions with localized initi…

gr-qc2023★ 1 cited

The asymptotics of massive fields on stationary spherically symmetric black holes for all angular momenta

Federico Pasqualotto, Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman, Maxime Van de Moortel

We study the massive scalar field equation on a stationary and spherically symmetric black hole (including in particular the Schwarzschild and Reissner--Nords…

gr-qc2023★ 1 cited

Boundedness and decay for the Teukolsky equation on Kerr in the full subextremal range : physical space analysis

Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman, Rita Teixeira da Costa

This paper concludes the study, initiated by the authors in arXiv:2007.07211, of the Teukolsky equation of spin and spin on Kerr backgrounds in the full subextremal…

gr-qc2022★ 4 cited

Twisted Self-Similarity and the Einstein Vacuum Equations

Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman

In the previous works [I. Rodnianski and Y. Shlapentokh-Rothman, Naked Singularities for the Einstein Vacuum Equations: The Exterior Solution, arXiv:1912.08478 and Y. Shlapentokh-R…

gr-qc2022★ 1 cited

Naked Singularities for the Einstein Vacuum Equations: The Interior Solution

Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman

In a previous work [I. Rodnianski and Y. Shlapentokh-Rothman, Naked Singularities for the Einstein Vacuum Equations: The Exterior Solution, arXiv:1912.08478] we constructed solutio…

gr-qc2022★ 7 cited

A scattering theory approach to Cauchy horizon instability and applications to mass inflation

Jonathan Luk, Sung-Jin Oh, Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman

Motivated by the strong cosmic censorship conjecture, we study the linear scalar wave equation in the interior of subextremal strictly charged Reissner-Nordström black holes by ana…

gr-qc2020★ 4 cited

Boundedness and decay for the Teukolsky equation on Kerr in the full subextremal range : frequency space analysis

Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman, Rita Teixeira da Costa

This paper is the first of a series regarding the Teukolsky equation of spin and spin on Kerr backgrounds in the full subextremal range of parameters . In th…

math.AP2019★ 3 cited

Naked Singularities for the Einstein Vacuum Equations: The Exterior Solution

Igor Rodnianski, Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman

In this work we initiate the mathematical study of naked singularities for the Einstein vacuum equations in dimensions by constructing solutions which correspond to the exter…

gr-qc2018★ 45 cited

Rough initial data and the strength of the blue-shift instability on cosmological black holes with

Mihalis Dafermos, Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman

We consider the wave equation on Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter and more generally Kerr-Newman-de Sitter black hole spacetimes with . The strength of the blue-shift instability…

gr-qc2018★ 35 cited

A scattering theory for linear waves on the interior of Reissner-Nordström black holes

Christoph Kehle, Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman

We develop a scattering theory for the linear wave equation on the interior of Reissner-Nordström black holes, connecting the fixed frequency picture to the physical…

gr-qc2017

The Asymptotically Self-Similar Regime for the Einstein Vacuum Equations

Igor Rodnianski, Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman

We develop a local theory for the construction of singular spacetimes in all spacetime dimensions which become asymptotically self-similar as the singularity is approached. The tec…

gr-qc2015★ 55 cited

Time-Translation Invariance of Scattering Maps and Blue-Shift Instabilities on Kerr Black Hole Spacetimes

Mihalis Dafermos, Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman

In this paper, we provide an elementary, unified treatment of two distinct blue-shift instabilities for the scalar wave equation on a fixed Kerr black hole background: the celebrat…

gr-qc2015

Stationary axisymmetric black holes with matter

Otis Chodosh, Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman

We provide a geometric framework for the construction of non-vacuum black holes whose metrics are stationary and axisymmetric. Under suitable assumptions we show that the Einstein…

gr-qc2015

Time-Periodic Einstein--Klein--Gordon Bifurcations of Kerr

Otis Chodosh, Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman

We construct one-parameter families of solutions to the Einstein--Klein--Gordon equations bifurcating off the Kerr solution such that the underlying family of spacetimes are each a…

gr-qc2014★ 73 cited

A scattering theory for the wave equation on Kerr black hole exteriors

Mihalis Dafermos, Igor Rodnianski, Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman

We develop a definitive physical-space scattering theory for the scalar wave equation on Kerr exterior backgrounds in the general subextremal case |a|<M. In particular, we prove re…

gr-qc2014★ 43 cited

Decay for solutions of the wave equation on Kerr exterior spacetimes III: The full subextremal case |a| < M

Mihalis Dafermos, Igor Rodnianski, Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman

This paper concludes the series begun in [M. Dafermos and I. Rodnianski, Decay for solutions of the wave equation on Kerr exterior spacetimes I-II: the cases |a| << M or axisymmetr…

gr-qc2013★ 77 cited

Quantitative Mode Stability for the Wave Equation on the Kerr Spacetime

Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman

We give a quantitative refinement and simple proofs of mode stability type statements for the wave equation on Kerr backgrounds in the full sub-extremal range (|a| < M). As an appl…

gr-qc2013★ 81 cited

Exponentially growing finite energy solutions for the Klein-Gordon equation on sub-extremal Kerr spacetimes

Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman

For any sub-extremal Kerr spacetime with non-zero angular momentum, we find an open family of non-zero masses for which there exist smooth, finite energy, and exponentially growing…

math.SP2010

An Asymptotic Faber-Krahn Inequality for the Combinatorial Laplacian on Z^2

Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman

The Faber-Krahn inequality states that among all open domains with a fixed volume in R^n, the ball minimizes the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of the Laplacian. We study an asymptotic…