Stationary axisymmetric Einstein-Vlasov bifurcations of the Kerr spacetime

Abstract

We construct a one-parameter family of stationary axisymmetric and asymptotically flat spacetimes solutions to the Einstein-Vlasov system bifurcating from the Kerr spacetime. The constructed solutions have the property that the spatial support of the matter is a finite, axisymmetric shell located away from the black hole. Our proof is mostly based on the analysis of the set of trapped timelike geodesics for stationary axisymmetric spacetimes close to Kerr, where the geodesic flow is not necessarily integrable. Moreover, the analysis of the Einstein field equations relies on the modified Carter Robinson theory developed by Chodosh and Shlapentokh-Rothman. This provides the first construction of black hole solutions to the Einstein-Vlasov system in the axisymmetric case and generalises the construction already done in the spherically symmetric case.