Kerr stability for small angular momentum

Abstract

This is our main paper in a series in which we prove the full, unconditional, nonlinear stability of the Kerr family $Kerr(a, m)$ for small angular momentum, i.e. $|a|/m\ll 1$, in the context of asymptotically flat solutions of the Einstein vacuum equations (EVE). Three papers in the series, \cite{KS-GCM1} and \cite{KS-GCM2} and \cite{GKS1} have already been released. We expect that the remaining ones \cite{GKS2}, \cite{KS:Kerr-B} and \cite{Shen} will appear shortly. Our work extends the strategy developed in \cite{KS}, in which only axial polarized perturbations of Schwarzschild were treated, by developing new geometric and analytic ideas on how to deal with with general perturbations of Kerr. We note that the restriction to small angular momentum appears only in connection to Morawetz type estimates in \cite{GKS2} and \cite{KS:Kerr-B}