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We study secular stability against a quasi-radial oscillation for rigidly rotating stars with soft equations of state in general relativity. The polytropic equations of state with polytropic index $n$ between 3 and 3.05 are adopted for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masaru Shibata

We prove nonlinear stability of the Larson-Penston family of self-similarly collapsing solutions to the isothermal Euler-Poisson system. Our result applies to radially symmetric perturbations and it is the first full nonlinear stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Yan Guo , Mahir Hadzic , Juhi Jang , Matthew Schrecker

The classical problem of attitude stability in a central gravity field is generalized to that on a stationary orbit around a uniformly-rotating asteroid. This generalized problem is studied in the framework of geometric mechanics. Based on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-03 Yue Wang , Shijie Xu

This paper presents a systematic study of the properties of non-rotating stellar models governed by the Euler-Poisson system under general equations of state, including the case of polytropic gaseous stars. We revisit and extend existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Hangsheng Chen

We consider the Vlasov-Poisson system in a cosmological setting and prove nonlinear stability of homogeneous solutions against small, spatially periodic perturbations in the sup-norm of the spatial mass density. This result is connected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Gerhard Rein

The classical model of an isolated selfrgavitating gaseous star is given by the Euler-Poisson system with a polytropic pressure law $P(\rho)=\rho^\gamma$, $\gamma>1$. For any $1<\gamma<\frac43$, we construct an infinite-dimensional family…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Yan Guo , Mahir Hadzic , Juhi Jang

We study the nonlinear radial stability of boson stars with a solitonic potential across the entire parameter space, focusing especially on families of solutions that support ultracompact models on the perturbatively stable branch. Using a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Gareth Arturo Marks

This paper gives a condensed review of the history of solutions to the Euler-Poisson equations modeling equilibrium states of rotating stars and galaxies, leading to a recent result of Walter Strauss and the author. This result constructs a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Yilun Wu

We study the stability of rotating scalar boson stars, comparing those made from a simple massive complex scalar (referred to as mini boson stars), to those with several different types of nonlinear interactions. To that end, we numerically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-16 Nils Siemonsen , William E. East

We study local well-posedness and orbital stability/instability of standing waves for a first order system associated with a nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation on a star graph. The proof of the well-posedness uses a classical fixed point…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Nataliia Goloshchapova

We study adiabatic oscillations of rotating self-gravitating gaseous stars in mathematically rigorous manner. The internal motion of the star is supposed to be governed by the Euler-Poisson equations with rotation of constant angular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Tetu Makino

This paper proves the nonlinear asymptotic stability of the Lane-Emden solutions for spherically symmetric motions of viscous gaseous stars if the adiabatic constant $\gamma$ lies in the stability range $(4/3, 2)$. It is shown that for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Tao Luo , Zhouping Xin , Huihui Zeng

We reinvestigate the stability properties of ultracompact spinning boson stars with a stable light ring using fully nonlinear 3+1 and 2+1 numerical relativity simulations and two different formulations of the Einstein equations. We find no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-18 Tamara Evstafyeva , Nils Siemonsen , William E. East

In this article, we prove nonlinear orbital stability for steadily translating vortex pairs, a family of nonlinear waves that are exact solutions of the incompressible, two-dimensional Euler equations. We use an adaptation of Kelvin's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Geoffrey R. Burton , Milton C. Lopes Filho , Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes

We have previously introduced the parameter `alpha' as an indicator of stability to m=2 nonaxisymmetric modes in rotating, self-gravitating, axisymmetric, gaseous and stellar systems. This parameter can be written as a function of the total…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. M. Christodoulou , I. Shlosman , J. E. Tohline

We consider the Vlasov-Poisson system with spherical symmetry and an exterior potential which is induced by a point mass in the center. This system can be used as a simple model for a newtonian galaxy surrounding a black hole. For this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Achim Schulze

The Nonlinear stability of triangular equilibrium points has been discussed in the generalised photogravitational restricted three body problem with Poynting-Robertson drag. The problem is generalised in the sense that smaller primary is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-12-01 B. S. Kushvah , J. P. Sharma , B. Ishwar

A nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with repulsive (defocusing) nonlinearity is considered. As an example, a system with a spatially varying coefficient of the nonlinear term is studied. The nonlinearity is chosen to be repelling except on a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-11-28 R. K. Jackson , R. Marangell , H. Susanto

It is well known that all rotating perfect fluid stars in general relativity are unstable to certain non-axisymmetric perturbations via the Chandrasekhar-Friedman-Schutz (CFS) instability. However, the mechanism of the CFS instability…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-26 Kartik Prabhu , Joshua S. Schiffrin , Robert M. Wald

The dynamical stability of differentially rotating neutron stars, including hypermassive neutron stars, is of paramount importance in understanding the fate of the post-merger remnant of binary neutron stars mergers and the formation of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-09 Paweł Szewczyk , Dorota Gondek-Rosińska , Pablo Cerdá-Durán