# Uniform boundedness and continuity at the Cauchy horizon for linear waves on Reissner-Nordstr\"om-AdS black holes

## TL;DR

This paper proves that massive scalar waves on Reissner-Nordström-AdS black holes remain uniformly bounded and continuous at the Cauchy horizon, addressing a key aspect of the Strong Cosmic Censorship Conjecture in AdS spacetimes.

## Contribution

It establishes uniform boundedness and continuity of scalar waves at the Cauchy horizon for the first time in the AdS black hole interior setting.

## Key findings

- Scalar waves are uniformly bounded at the Cauchy horizon.
- Continuity of waves extends up to the Cauchy horizon.
- Results support the Strong Cosmic Censorship Conjecture in AdS contexts.

## Abstract

Motivated by the Strong Cosmic Censorship Conjecture for asymptotically AdS spacetimes, we initiate the study of massive scalar waves satisfying $\Box_g \psi - \mu \psi =0$ on the interior of Anti-de Sitter (AdS) black holes. We prescribe initial data on a spacelike hypersurface of a Reissner--Nordstr\"om--AdS black hole and impose Dirichlet (reflecting) boundary conditions at infinity. It was known previously that such waves only decay at a sharp logarithmic rate (in contrast to a polynomial rate as in the asymptotically flat regime) in the black hole exterior. In view of this slow decay, the question of uniform boundedness in the black hole interior and continuity at the Cauchy horizon has remained up to now open. We answer this question in the affirmative.