Information-entropic stability bound for compact objects: application to Q-balls and the Chandrasekhar limit of polytropes

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DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2013.10.005zbMATH Open1331.85003arXiv1307.0530OpenAlexW2094947409MaRDI QIDQ5963930FDOQ5963930

Marcelo Gleiser, Damian Sowinski

Publication date: 26 February 2016

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Spatially-bound objects across diverse length and energy scales are characterized by a binding energy. We propose that their spatial structure is mathematically encoded as information in their momentum modes and described by a measure known as configurational entropy (CE). Investigating solitonic Q-balls and stars with a polytropic equation of state P=Khogamma, we show that objects with large binding energy have low CE, whereas those at the brink of instability (zero binding energy) have near maximal CE. In particular, we use the CE to find the critical charge allowing for classically stable Q-balls and the Chandrasekhar limit for white dwarfs (gamma=4/3) with an accuracy of a few percent.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.0530




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