Phase space mixing in an external gravitational central potential
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Abstract: This article is devoted to the study of the dynamical behavior of a collisionless kinetic gas in d=1,2,3 space dimensions which is trapped in a rotationally symmetric potential well. Although at the microscopic level the trajectories of individual gas particles are quasi-periodic and characterized by their d fundamental frequencies, at the macroscopic level the gas relaxes in time to a stationary state, provided the potential satisfies a certain non-degeneracy condition. In this article, we provide a mathematically precise formulation for this relaxation process which is due to phase space mixing. In particular, we prove that a physically relevant class of macroscopic observables computed from the one-particle distribution function, such as particle and energy densities, pressure and stress tensors, converge in time to the corresponding observables associated with an averaged distribution function. The latter can be determined from the initial datum and depends only on integrals of motion. Thus, the final state of the gas is described by an effective distribution function depending only on integrals of motion, which considerably reduces the degrees of freedom of the gas configuration. We discuss some applications to gravitational physics, including the propagation of a collisionless gas in typical potentials arising in stellar dynamics and the modeling of dark matter halos, and we also generalize our results to a relativistic gas whose individual particles follow bound timelike trajectories in the exterior region of a static, spherically symmetric black hole spacetime.
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