Stationary gravitational modes on Kerr-anti-de Sitter spacetimes

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates the existence of stationary gravitational modes on Kerr-anti-de Sitter black holes for large azimuthal numbers, using a novel proof method involving shooting arguments and WKB approximation.

Contribution

It introduces a new proof scheme for stationary modes on Kerr-AdS spacetimes, overcoming the limitations of variational methods.

Findings

Existence of stationary modes for large |m| near the Hawking-Reall threshold.

Modes accumulate at the Hawking-Reall threshold as |m| increases.

Development of a shooting-type continuity argument and high-frequency WKB method.

Abstract

We prove that, for any continuous path of Kerr-adS black hole parameters crossing the Hawking-Reall threshold, for all azimuthal number $|m|$ sufficiently large, there exists black hole parameters on the path such that the Teukolsky equations with conformal boundary conditions admit a non-trivial regular stationary (\emph{i.e.} with frequency $\omega=m\omega_+$) mode solution. When $|m|$ goes to infinity, we show that these black hole parameters accumulate at the Hawking-Reall threshold. The major difficulty is that one cannot construct solutions to the system of Teukolsky equations using variational arguments as it is usually done for the classical wave equation. We introduce a new scheme of proof based on a shooting-type continuity argument and a high-frequency WKB approximation.