Unstable galaxy models

DOI10.3934/KRM.2013.6.701MaRDI QIDQ2438121zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhiyu Wang, Yan Guo, Zhiwu Lin, Pingwen Zhang

Publication date 10 March 2014

Published in Kinetic and Related Models (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2988

zbMATH Keywords

instabilityVlasov-Poissongalaxy modelJean's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Molecular, statistical, and kinetic theories in solid mechanics (74A25) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

Abstract: The dynamics of collisionless galaxy can be described by the Vlasov-Poisson system. By the Jean's theorem, all the spherically symmetric steady galaxy models are given by a distribution of {Phi}(E,L), where E is the particle energy and L the angular momentum. In a celebrated Doremus-Feix-Baumann Theorem, the galaxy model {Phi}(E,L) is stable if the distribution {Phi} is monotonically decreasing with respect to the particle energy E. On the other hand, the stability of {Phi}(E,L) remains largely open otherwise. Based on a recent abstract instability criterion of Guo-Lin, we constuct examples of unstable galaxy models of f(E,L) and f(E) in which f fails to be monotone in E.

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