On the dynamics of thin shells of counter-rotating particles

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/26/4/045006MaRDI QIDQ3616379zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Reinaldo J. Gleiser, Marcos A. Ramirez

Publication date 25 March 2009

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4728

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55)

Abstract: In this paper we study the dynamics of self gravitating spherically symmetric thin shells of counter rotating particles. We consider all possible velocity distributions for the particles, and show that the equations of motion by themselves do not constrain this distribution. We therefore consider the dynamical stability of the resulting configurations under several possible processes. This include the stability of static configurations as a whole, where we find a lower bound for the compactness of the shells. We analyze also the stability of the single particle orbits, and find conditions for "single particle evaporation". Finally, in the case of a shell with particles whose angular momenta are restricted to two values, we consider the conditions for stability under splitting into two separate shells. This analysis leads to the conclusion that under certain conditions, that are given explicitly, an evolving shell may split into one or more separate shells. We provide explicit examples to illustrate this phenomenon. We also include a derivation of the thick to thin shell limit for an Einstein shell that shows that the limiting distribution of angular momenta is unique, covering continuously a finite range of values.

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