On spherically symmetric solutions of the relativistic Euler equation (Q1880768)

The authors of this interesting paper study the relativistic Euler system describing the motion of a perfect fluid in the Minkowski space-time. It is considered the spherically symmetric case, which is reduced to the system of hyperbolic differential equations \[ {\partial\over \partial t }{\rho +Pu^2/c^4\over 1-u^2/c^2 }+{\partial\over \partial r}{(\rho +P/c^2)u\over 1-u^2/c^2 }+{2\over r }{(\rho +P/c^2)u\over 1-u^2/c^2 }=0, \] \[ {\partial\over \partial t }{(\rho +P/c^2)u\over 1-u^2/c^2 }+{\partial\over \partial r}{\rho u^2+P\over 1-u^2/c^2 }+{2\over r }{(\rho +P/c^2)u^2\over 1-u^2/c^2 }=0, \] where \(\rho =\rho (r,t)\) is the density, and \(u=(u_1,u_2,u_3)\) is the velocity transformed by \(u_j=(x_j/r)u(r,t)\) and \(r=| x| \), \(r\geq 1\). The initial condition is \(\rho| _{t=0}=\rho^0(r)\), \(u| _{t=0}=u^0(r)\), and the boundary condition \(\rho u| _{r=1}=0\). The initial data contain the vacuum state. It turns out that the considered problem can be written in the form \[ U_t+f(U)_r=H(r,U), \;\;U| _{t=0}=U^0(r), \;\;F| _{r=1}=0. \] The main result is that there exists a global weak solution \(U\in L^{\infty }([1,+\infty )\times [0,T))\) (\(T=\infty \)) for the problem under consideration provided that certain integral conditions hold.