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Energy-Casimir functionals are a useful tool for the construction of steady states and the analysis of their nonlinear stability properties for a variety of conservative systems in mathematical physics. Recently, Y. Guo and the author…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerhard Rein

We consider the three dimensional gravitational Vlasov Poisson system which describes the mechanical state of a stellar system subject to its own gravity. A well-known conjecture in astrophysics is that the steady state solutions which are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-05 Mohammed Lemou , Florian Mehats , Pierre Raphael

In previous work by Y. Guo and G. Rein, nonlinear stability of equilibria in stellar dynamics, i.e., of steady states of the Vlasov-Poisson system, was accessed by variational techniques. Here we propose a different, non-variational…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yan Guo , Gerhard Rein

The Nordstr\"om-Vlasov system is a relativistic Lorentz invariant generalization of the Vlasov-Poisson system in the gravitational case. The asymptotic behavior of solutions and the non-linear stability of steady states are investigated. It…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simone Calogero , Oscar Sanchez , Juan Soler

In this paper, we extend the energy-Casimir stability method for deterministic Lie-Poisson Hamiltonian systems to provide sufficient conditions for the stability in probability of stochastic dynamical systems with symmetries and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Alexis Arnaudon , Nader Ganaba , Darryl Holm

In this work, we study the orbital stability of steady states and the existence of blow-up self-similar solutions to the so-called Vlasov-Manev (VM) system. This system is a kinetic model which has a similar Vlasov structure as the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-15 Mohammed Lemou , Florian Méhats , Cyril Rigault

We complete classical investigations concerning the dynamical stability of an infinite homogeneous gaseous medium described by the Euler-Poisson system or an infinite homogeneous stellar system described by the Vlasov-Poisson system (Jeans…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We consider stability of non-rotating gaseous stars modeled by the Euler-Poisson system. Under general assumptions on the equation of states, we proved a turning point principle (TPP) that the stability of the stars is entirely determined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Zhiwu Lin , Chongchun Zeng

This research presents a model that accurately represents the motions of gaseous stars We employ the Navier-Stokes-Poisson system to transform compressible Euler equations into non-compressible ones by combining quasineutral and inviscid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Anis Rahmani , Abdelaziz Mennouni

The main concern of this paper is to mathematically investigate the formation of a plasma sheath near the surface of nonplanar walls. We study the existence and asymptotic stability of stationary solutions for the nonisentropic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Mingjie Li , Masahiro Suzuki

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

Existence of spherically symmetric solutions to the Einstein-Vlasov system is well-known. However, it is an open problem whether or not static solutions arise as minimizers of a variational problem. Apart from being of interest in its own…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-19 Håkan Andréasson , Markus Kunze

We prove existence of rotating star solutions which are steady-state solutions of the compressible isentropic Euler-Poisson (EP) equations in 3 spatial dimensions, with prescribed angular momentum and total mass. This problem can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Tao Luo , Joel Smoller

Equilibrium states in galactic dynamics can be described as stationary solutions of the Vlasov-Poisson system, which is the non-relativistic case, or of the Vlasov-Einstein system, which is the relativistic case. To obtain spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Gerhard Rein , Alan D. Rendall

This paper investigates the existence and properties of stable, uniformly rotating star-planet systems, i.e. mass ratio is sufficiently small. It is modeled by the Euler-Poisson equations. Following the framework established by McCann for…

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

It is well known that steady states of the Vlasov-Poisson system, a widely used model in non-relativistic galactic dynamics, have negative energy. In this paper we derive the analogous property for two relativistic generalizations of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Simone Calogero , Juan Calvo , Óscar Sánchez , Juan Soler

The paper considers Euler-Poisson equations which govern the steady state of a self gravitating, rotating, axi-symmetric stars under the additional assumption that it is composed of incompressible stratified fluid. The original system of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Mayer Humi

We consider stability of non-rotating viscous gaseous stars modeled by the Navier-Stokes-Poisson system. Under general assumptions on the equations of states, we proved that the number of unstable modes for the linearized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Ming Cheng , Zhiwu Lin , Yucong Wang

As is well known from the work of R. Glassey} and J. Schaeffer, the main energy estimates which are used in global existence results for the gravitational Vlasov-Poisson system do not apply to the relativistic version of this system, and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-12-03 Mahir Hadzic , Gerhard Rein

We prove nonlinear stability of compactly supported expanding star-solutions of the mass-critical gravitational Euler-Poisson system. These special solutions were discovered by Goldreich and Weber in 1980. The expanding rate of such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-27 Mahir Hadzic , Juhi Jang