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In this paper, we prove the nonlinear stability under localized perturbations of spectrally stable time-periodic source defects of reaction-diffusion systems. Consisting of a core that emits periodic wave trains to each side, source defects…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Margaret Beck , Toan T. Nguyen , Björn Sandstede , Kevin Zumbrun

We study $m=1$ oscillations and instabilities of magnetised neutron stars, by numerical time-evolution of linear perturbations of the system. The background stars are stationary equilibrium configurations with purely toroidal magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. K. Lander , D. I. Jones

Perturbation theory in geometric theories of gravitation is a gauge theory of symmetric tensors defined on a Lorentzian manifold (the background spacetime). The gauge freedom makes uniqueness problems in perturbation theory particularly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-03 Marc Mars , Borja Reina , Raül Vera

Coherent structures are solutions to reaction-diffusion systems that are time-periodic in an appropriate moving frame and spatially asymptotic at $x=\pm\infty$ to spatially periodic travelling waves. This paper is concerned with sources…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Margaret Beck , Toan Nguyen , Bjorn Sandstede , Kevin Zumbrun

We formulate within a generalized distributional approach the treatment of the stability against radial perturbations for both neutral and charged stratified stars in Newtonian and Einstein's gravity. We obtain from this approach the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Jonas P. Pereira , Jorge A. Rueda

This work deals with a scalar nonlinear neutral delay differential equation issued from the study of wave propagation. A critical value of the coefficients is considered, where only few results are known. The difficulty follows from the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Stéphane Junca , Bruno Lombard

The aim of this paper is to clarify the stabilities of neutron stars with strong toroidal magnetic fields against non-axisymmetric perturbation. The motivation comes from the fact that super magnetized neutron stars of $\sim 10^{15}$G,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-21 Kenta Kiuchi , Shijun Yoshida , Masaru Shibata

Inspired by the classical Poincar\'e criterion about the instability of orientation preserving minimizing closed geodesics on surfaces, we investigate the relation intertwining the instability and the variational properties of periodic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Alessandro Portaluri , Li Wu , Ran Yang

Some black hole mimickers, as well as black strings and other higher-dimensional spacetimes, exhibit stable light rings-regions where light or high-frequency gravitational waves can be trapped. In these regions, linear perturbations decay…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-11 Jaime Redondo-Yuste , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño

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

The present work investigates the numerical evolution of linearized oscillations of non-rotating, spherically symmetric neutron stars within the framework of general relativity. We derive the appropriate equations using the (3+1)-formalism.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Johannes Ruoff

In the present work, we study the radial and non-radial perturbative stability of neutron stars in which the matter is disformally coupled to the metric. First, we derive the gravitational and the fluid equations of the neutron star in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-08 Hamza Boumaza

Conditions for the existence and stability of de Sitter space in modified gravity are derived by considering inhomogeneous perturbations in a gauge-invariant formalism. The stability condition coincides with the corresponding condition for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Valerio Faraoni , Shahn Nadeau

We give a comprehensive analysis of the dynamic and thermodynamic stability of neutron stars composed of superconducting-superfluid mixtures within the Iyer-Wald formalism. We derive the first law of thermodynamics and the necessary and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-09 Delong Kong , Yu Tian , Hongbao Zhang

A matrix method is formulated in a Lagrangian representation for the solution of the characteristic value problem governing modes of oscillation and instability in a collisionless stellar system. The underlying perturbation equations govern…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter O. Vandervoort

We have developed a new formulation to obtain self-gravitating, axisymmetric configurations in permanent rotation. The formulation is based on the Lagrangian variational principle with a triangulated mesh. It treats not only barotropic but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-21 Nobutoshi Yasutake , Kotaro Fujisawa , Shoichi Yamada

Starobinsky gravity, as one of the simplest and best-behaved higher-curvature gravity theories, has been extensively studied in the context of neutron stars over the past few decades. In this work, we investigate the adiabatic radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Ziyi Li , Zhong-Xi Yu , Zhe Luo , Shoulong Li , Hongwei Yu

We analyse the stability of the de Sitter equilibria in multi-resonant planetary systems. The de Sitter equilibrium is the dynamical state of the Laplace resonance in which all resonant arguments are librating. The sequence of equilibria…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-07 Giuseppe Pucacco

We use time-evolutions of the linear perturbation equations to study the oscillations of rapidly rotating neutrons stars. Our models account for the buoyancy due to composition gradients and we study, for the first time, the nature of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Passamonti , B. Haskell , N. Andersson , D. I. Jones , I. Hawke

We study non-axisymmetric oscillations of rapidly and differentially rotating relativistic stars in the Cowling approximation. Our equilibrium models are sequences of relativistic polytropes, where the differential rotation is described by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-22 Christian Krüger , Erich Gaertig , Kostas D. Kokkotas