Unstable galaxy models

DOI10.3934/KRM.2013.6.701zbMATH Open1286.85004arXiv1303.2988OpenAlexW2962976224MaRDI QIDQ2438121FDOQ2438121

Zhiyu Wang, Zhiwu Lin, Yan Guo, Pingwen Zhang

Publication date: 10 March 2014

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

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.

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)

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