Mass-radius spirals for steady state families of the Vlasov-Poisson system

DOI10.1007/S00205-017-1098-ZMaRDI QIDQ524318zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tobias Ramming, Gerhard Rein

Publication date 2 May 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.06151

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein-Vlasov systemspherical symmetryspiral structurestationary Vlasov-Poisson system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) Euler equations (35Q31) Einstein equations (35Q76) Vlasov equations (35Q83) PDEs in connection with astronomy and astrophysics (35Q85) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05)

Abstract: We consider spherically symmetric steady states of the Vlasov-Poisson system, which describe equilibrium configurations of galaxies or globular clusters. If the microscopic equation of state, i.e., the dependence of the steady state on the particle energy (and angular momentum) is fixed, a one-parameter family of such states is obtained. In the polytropic case the mass of the state along such a one-parameter family is a monotone function of its radius. We prove that for the King, Woolley-Dickens, and related models this mass-radius relation takes the form of a spiral.

Review text

The purpose of this paper is to study the stationary Vlasov-Poisson system in the gravitational case. The main theorem is a matrix formula for the induced one-parameter family of steady states. Several similar systems, like the Einstein-Vlasov system, which induces spherically symmetric steady states, are studied. The spiral structure of the mass-radius diagram for the King model and related models is crucial for the investigations. For the asymptotic expansions, a small parameter \(\epsilon\) is used to prove similar theorems. The proofs use the Arzela-Ascoli theorem and the Schauder fixed point theorem.

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