Global Nonlinear Stability of Schwarzschild Spacetime under Polarized Perturbations · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1711.07597/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTGlobal Nonlinear Stability of Schwarzschild Spacetime under Polarized Perturbations — mentioned by raattgifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16592511urn:hackerpapers:mention:1711.07597:16592511Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:16:44 GMT<p>&gt; where do we get a black hole to poke As qubex suggests, this is really about confirming that asymptotically Schwarzschild spacetime (and its close relatives) is mathematically robust [1]. Asymptotically here means that if we perturb (gravitationally or electromagnetically) a Schwarzschild black hole the resulting radiation from &quot;balding&quot; will decay exponentially fast and die off to ground state well before spatial infinity. This is also a useful check on practices like (in cosmology) taking a boundary at some reasonable radius from a galaxy as if it were asymptotically Schwarzschild space…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1711.07597/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>gr-qc