Comments on the paper `Static solutions of the Vlasov-Einstein system' by G. Wolansky

DOI10.1007/S00205-019-01432-2MaRDI QIDQ2296917zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors H. Andréasson, Markus Kunze

Publication date 18 February 2020

Published in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10683

zbMATH Keywords

Euler-Lagrange equationstatic solutionsvariational problemVlasov-Einstein system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Einstein equations (35Q76) Vlasov equations (35Q83) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

Abstract: In this note we address the attempted proof of the existence of static solutions to the Einstein-Vlasov system as given in cite{Wol}. We focus on a specific and central part of the proof which concerns a variational problem with an obstacle. We show that two important claims in cite{Wol} are incorrect and we question the validity of a third claim. We also discuss the variational problem and its difficulties with the aim to stimulate further investigations of this intriguing problem: to answer the question whether or not static solutions of the Einstein-Vlasov system can be found as local minimizers of an energy-Casimir functional.

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