Self-similar kinetics for gravitational Bose-Einstein condensation
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2025-12-19 v2 Quantum Gases
Statistical Mechanics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We study an overpopulated gas of gravitationally interacting bosons surrounding a droplet of Bose-Einstein condensate - Bose star. We argue that kinetic evolution of this gas approaches with time a self-similar attractor solution to the kinetic equation. If the scale symmetry of the equation is broken by external conditions, the attractor solution exists, remains approximately self-similar, but has slowly drifting scaling dimension. The latter new regime of adiabatic self-similarity can determine growth of dark matter Bose stars in cosmological models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2509.02694,
title = {Self-similar kinetics for gravitational Bose-Einstein condensation},
author = {A. S. Dmitriev and D. G. Levkov and A. G. Panin and I. I. Tkachev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.02694},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
20 pages, 13 figures; journal version