A note on the wave equation on black hole spacetimes with small non-decaying first order terms

Abstract

We present an elementary physical space argument to establish local integrated decay estimates for the perturbed wave equation $\Box_g \phi = \epsilon \beta^a \partial_a \phi$ on the exterior of the Schwarzschild geometry $(\mathcal{M},g)$. Here $\beta$ is a regular vectorfield on $\mathcal{M}$ decaying suitably in space but not necessarily in time. The proof is formulated to cover also perturbations of the Regge--Wheeler equation.