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

DOI10.1007/S00205-017-1098-ZzbMATH Open1369.35095arXiv1602.06151OpenAlexW3101839184MaRDI QIDQ524318FDOQ524318

Tobias Ramming, Gerhard Rein

Publication date: 2 May 2017

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

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.

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

zbMATH Keywords

spherical symmetryEinstein-Vlasov systemspiral structurestationary Vlasov-Poisson system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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