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Linear Stability of liquid Lane-Emden stars

Analysis of PDEs 2023-05-11 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We establish various qualitative properties of liquid Lane-Emden stars in Rd\mathbb{R}^d, including bounds for its density profile ρ\rho and radius RR. Using them we prove that against radial perturbations, the liquid Lane-Emden stars are linearly stable when γ2(d1)/d\gamma\geq 2(d-1)/d; linearly stable when γ<2(d1)/d\gamma<2(d-1)/d for stars with small relative central density ρ(0)ρ(R)\rho(0)-\rho(R); and linearly unstable when γ<2(d1)/d\gamma<2(d-1)/d for stars with large central density. Such dependence on central density is not seen in the gaseous Lane-Emden stars.

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@article{arxiv.2208.06736,
  title  = {Linear Stability of liquid Lane-Emden stars},
  author = {King Ming Lam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.06736},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Made some minor changes in wordings and updated the introduction with references to recent works