Dynamical collapse of Boson stars

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DOI10.1007/S00220-011-1341-7zbMATH Open1242.85007arXiv1005.3135OpenAlexW3099919079MaRDI QIDQ422385FDOQ422385


Authors: A. Michelangeli, B. Schlein Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 16 May 2012

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the time evolution in system of N bosons with a relativistic dispersion law interacting through an attractive Coulomb potential with coupling constant G. We consider the mean field scaling where N tends to infinity, G tends to zero and lambda=GN remains fixed. We investigate the relation between the many body quantum dynamics governed by the Schr"odinger equation and the effective evolution described by a (semi-relativistic) Hartree equation. In particular, we are interested in the super-critical regime of large lambda (the sub-critical case has been studied in cite{ES,KP}), where the nonlinear Hartree equation is known to have solutions which blow up in finite time. To inspect this regime, we need to regularize the Coulomb interaction in the many body Hamiltonian with an N dependent cutoff that vanishes in the limit Noinfty. We show, first, that if the solution of the nonlinear equation does not blow up in the time interval [T,T], then the many body Schr"odinger dynamics (on the level of the reduced density matrices) can be approximated by the nonlinear Hartree dynamics, just as in the sub-critical regime. Moreover, we prove that if the solution of the nonlinear Hartree equation blows up at time T (in the sense that the H1/2 norm of the solution diverges as time approaches T), then also the solution of the linear Schr"odinger equation collapses (in the sense that the kinetic energy per particle diverges) if toT and, simultaneously, Noinfty sufficiently fast. This gives the first dynamical description of the phenomenon of gravitational collapse as observed directly on the many body level.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.3135




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