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In this global study of solutions to the linear wave equation on Schwarzschild de Sitter spacetimes we attend to the cosmological region of spacetime which is bounded in the past by cosmological horizons and to the future by a spacelike hypersurface at infinity. We prove an energy estimate capturing the expansion of that region, which combined with earlier results for the static region, yields a global boundedness result for linear waves. It asserts that a general finite energy solution to the global initial value problem has a limit on the future boundary at infinity that can be viewed as a function on the standard cylinder with finite energy, and that, moreover, any decay along the cosmological horizon is inherited along the future boundary. In particular, we exhibit an explicit nonvanishing quantity on the future boundary of the spacetime consistent with our expectations for the nonlinear stability problem. Our results apply to a large class of expanding cosmologies near the Schwarzschild de Sitter geometry, in particular subextremal Kerr de Sitter spacetimes.
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V. Schlue would like to thank the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Cambridge European Trust, and the European Research Council for their financial support.
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Schlue, V. Global Results for Linear Waves on Expanding Kerr and Schwarzschild de Sitter Cosmologies. Commun. Math. Phys. 334, 977–1023 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-014-2154-2
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