A Time Independent Energy Estimate for Outgoing Scalar Waves in the Kerr Geometry
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The Cauchy problem for the scalar wave equation in the Kerr geometry is considered, with initial data which is smooth and compactly supported outside the event horizon. A time-independent energy estimate for the outgoing wave is obtained. As an application we estimate the outgoing energy for wave-packet initial data, uniformly as the support of the initial data is shifted to infinity. The main mathematical tool is our previously derived integral representation of the wave propagator.
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