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Stability of disk-like galaxies--Part I: Stability via reduction

Mathematical Physics 2007-05-23 v1 math.MP

Abstract

We prove the existence and stability of flat steady states of the Vlasov-Poisson system, which in astrophysics are used as models of disk-like galaxies. We follow the variational approach developed by Guo and Rein for this type of problems and extend previous results of Rein. In particular, we employ a reduction procedure which relates the stability problem for the Vlasov-Poisson system to the analogous question for the Euler-Poisson system.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0605070,
  title  = {Stability of disk-like galaxies--Part I: Stability via reduction},
  author = {Roman Firt and Gerhard Rein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0605070},
  year   = {2007}
}

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21 pages

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