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Title: Does every generic gravitational collapse settle to Kerr black holes?
Plain: The final state conjecture says that any isolated system eventually becomes a set of Kerr black holes moving apart plus outgoing gravitational radiation. Stability of a single Kerr black hole covers only the small-disturbance part of this claim.
Precise: For generic asymptotically flat vacuum (or reasonable matter) initial data in 3+1 dimensions, prove that the maximal development is asymptotically a finite collection of boosted Kerr black holes plus radiation, possibly with a dispersing part. An answer is a proof or a counterexample.
Settled by: A global theorem on the late-time structure of generic large-data vacuum spacetimes.
Kind: well-posed
Answer type: proof
References: (empty)
Literature status: open
Status note: (empty)
Posed since: (empty)