Clusters Exterior Stability

Exterior Stability

Global exterior dynamics, decay, scattering, and radiation for near-Kerr spacetimes. Includes the main Kerr stability conjecture and its extensions to matter fields and near-extremal regimes.

44 problems 35 open 6 partial 0 needs review
By family (this cluster)
  • Near-Kerr (vacuum) (35)
  • Related rotating BH (3)
  • Kerr–de Sitter (3)
  • Kerr–Newman (2)
  • Kerr–AdS (1)
By relevance
  • Pure math (40)
  • Mixed (1)
  • Physics-facing (3)
Taxonomy caveat. Cluster placement is a coarse editorial choice. Check each problem’s family and asymptotics tags — e.g. Kerr–AdS and Kerr–de Sitter entries differ sharply from asymptotically flat Kerr, even when they sit in “Exterior Stability” or “Interior / SCC”.

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Problems in this cluster

K-001
Full nonlinear stability of subextremal Kerr
Partial progress Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-002
Uniform nonlinear stability as $a \to M^-$
Open Related rotating BH Pure math
K-003
Nonlinear asymptotic completeness near Kerr
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Mixed
K-004
Peeling and polyhomogeneous expansions at null infinity for nonlinear near-Kerr evolutions
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-005
Sharp nonlinear Price law for curvature
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Physics-facing
K-006
Kerr stability with BMS charges and nonlinear memory
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Physics-facing
K-007
Einstein–Maxwell stability near Kerr
Open Kerr–Newman Pure math
K-008
Full asymptotically flat stability of the subextremal Kerr–Newman family
Open Kerr–Newman Pure math
K-009
Einstein–massive Klein–Gordon near Kerr: classification of stable and unstable regimes
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-010
Nonlinear superradiant endstates in Kerr–AdS
Open Kerr–AdS Pure math
K-011
Spin fields on dynamical near-Kerr backgrounds
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-012
Low-regularity Kerr stability threshold
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-013
Formation plus relaxation to Kerr
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-014
Nonlinear decay versus resonance expansions
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Physics-facing
K-608
Nonlinear stability of slowly rotating Kerr-de Sitter
Solved Kerr–de Sitter Pure math
K-609
Prove conditional nonlinear stability of Kerr-de Sitter in the full subextremal range under explicit mode-stability assumptions.
Conditional Kerr–de Sitter Pure math
K-612
Prove generic sharp lower bounds on event-horizon flux for spin-2 Teukolsky fields.
Partial progress Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-628
Derive rigorous late-time tail constants for scalar wave on Kerr in full subextremal range.
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-629
Prove robust decay estimates for Maxwell/Dirac fields on Kerr without small-a restriction, in sharp norms.
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-630
Prove nonlinear stability of Schwarzschild without codimension restrictions (full moduli convergence to Kerr).
Partial progress Related rotating BH Pure math
K-632
Quantify how much Kerrness can be certified from finite-radius curvature invariants (numerical-relativity certification).
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-649
Formalize in a proof assistant: the exact Kerr separability structure and Carter constant derivation.
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-651
Prove linear stability of Kerr in alternative gauges (radiation gauges, generalized wave gauges) with explicit gauge maps.
Partial progress Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-652
Prove nonlinear stability of Kerr under weaker asymptotic flatness (polyhomogeneous/rough null infinity assumptions).
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-655
Prove explicit sharp late-time asymptotics for scalar field along the event horizon in Kerr (full range).
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-659
Prove sharp resolvent bounds near omega=0 for Kerr linearized Einstein operator, uniform in a/M.
Partial progress Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-664
Prove robust decay estimates for wave/Teukolsky equations on perturbed Kerr backgrounds without separability.
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-665
Prove quantitative mode stability for Kerr-de Sitter in full subextremal range and feed into nonlinear stability.
Conditional Kerr–de Sitter Pure math
K-669
Prove global existence and weak cosmic censorship for small perturbations of Kerr data in an appropriate gauge.
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-670
Prove existence of trapped surfaces in vacuum from very low regularity characteristic data.
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-672
Prove that generic small perturbations of Kerr generate nonzero angular momentum in the asymptotic Kerr parameter (modulation).
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-673
Prove a quantitative angular-momentum extraction formula from $\mathcal{I}^+$ radiation for near-Kerr vacuum spacetimes.
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-674
Prove that near-Kerr spacetimes admit a robust foliation by generalized GCM spheres with quantified control.
Partial progress Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-676
Prove sharp bounds on superradiant amplification for waves on Kerr uniform in a/M.
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-677
Prove stability of Kerr under small non-vacuum perturbations (e.g., Einstein-Vlasov) in a near-Kerr regime.
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-678
Prove nonlinear stability of Kerr under polarized symmetry-breaking perturbations (intermediate symmetry classes).
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-679
Prove stability/instability of higher-dimensional Kerr (Myers-Perry) in PDE sense for small angular momentum.
Open Related rotating BH Pure math
K-680
Prove rigorous statements about tails vs memory interaction in near-Kerr: do late-time tails source measurable memory at $\mathcal{I}^+$?
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-685
Prove quantitative stability of the Carter constant for geodesics under small metric perturbations.
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-689
Prove existence and stability of time-periodic near-Kerr solutions (vacuum or with fields) if any.
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-690
Prove robust constraints on nonlinear energy cascades near Kerr (no-turbulence regimes) under small data.
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-693
Prove deterministic stability results for Kerr under stochastic perturbations (noise robustness in PDE sense).
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-694
Prove sharp stability of Kerr under small violations of vacuum Einstein (numerical truncation errors).
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math
K-695
Formalize in a proof assistant: Carter separability and associated conserved quantities for Kerr geodesics.
Open Near-Kerr (vacuum) Pure math