Semi-classical limit of quantum free energy minimizers for the gravitational Hartree equation (Q2220644)

The authors consider the gravitational Vlasov-Poisson equation for a plasma in a gravitational field. They assume that their approach would be valid for large complexes of stars like white dwarfs with a number of stars $N>10^8$ or $N>10^{14}$ for giant stars. The main idea of the actual article is as follows. There is a number of research in which one construct free energy minimizers under some mass constrains. From an another hand there are also researches which investigate free energy minimizers for the quantum problem, based on the well known Hartree-Fock mean field method. The problem which is solved by the authors of the actual article concerns with the correspondence between quantum and classical isotropic states. The authors prove some theorems stating that in the limit of very small quantum Planck constant ( when the Planck constant is going to 0), the free energy minimizers for the Hartree-Fock equation converge to those for the Vlasov-Poisson equation in terms of potential functions, as well as via the Wigner transform and the Toplitz quantization. The authors mention throughout the text of the article an earlier research (1961, 1962) by V.A. Antonov, which is proving the stability of the Vlasov-Poisson equation, applied for stellar many-bodies systems with large number of components. Let us mention, that the famous paper by A.A. Vlasov which established a new kinetic equation for plasma was published in 1938 and only much later was recognized as a correct equation for plasma. See, about this the book by \textit{I. P. Bazarov}, and \textit{P. N. Nikolaev} [Anatolij Aleksandrovich Vlasov ( in Russian), 2nd edition, 63 p. (1999; \url{http:// phys.msu.ru/upload/iblock/0cc/ vlasov-book.pdf})].